Weightman v. Hatch
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill iu chancery filed in the Tazewell Circuit Court, 15th March, 1852, by Reuben Hatch against John Preston and John Weightman, to set aside a deed made by Preston to Weight-man of certain lands situate in said county, which was alleged by complainant to be fraudulent and void, as against the creditors of Preston.
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This was a bill iu chancery filed in the Tazewell Circuit Court, 15th March, 1852, by Reuben Hatch against John Preston and John Weightman, to set aside a deed made by Preston to Weight-man of certain lands situate in said county, which was alleged by complainant to be fraudulent and void, as against the creditors of Preston. The bill sets out, that at the October term, A. D. 1851, of the Pike Circuit Court, in a certain cause, on the chancery side of said court, wherein the said Hatch was complainant, and the said John Preston and others were defendants, the said Hatch, by decree of said…
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
This is a creditor’s bill filed by Hatch, against Weightman and Preston, to set aside an alleged fraudulent conveyance, made by Preston to Weightman. Notwithstanding the very able and learned argument for the plaintiffs in error, after a full consideration of all the objections, we find we must affirm the decree excepting as to one hundred and sixty acres of the land which Weightman had sold to Duval, and twenty acres sold to Bogle, neither of whom were made defendants to the bill, and as against whom no decree should have been made.
The bill alleges that the complainant had obtained…
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