Cone v. Hamilton

The material facts alleged in the bill and admitted by the demurrer may be briefly stated. George W. Hamilton, being in the occupation of land under an agreement of the owner to convey it to him on his payment of the sum of twenty dollars, and having built a house upon it with his own funds and labor, on the 12th of January 1843, being in debt to various persons, and intending to defraud them, paid to the owner of the land the sum agreed, and had the land conveyed to his own children, the eldest of whom was under eight years of age, and neither of whom paid any consideration for the…