Dulion v. Harkness
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Harrison county. IIon. Stone Devours, Chancellor. Harkness and his wife, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Dulion and another, appellants, were defendants there. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Prom the chancery court of Harrison county. IIon. Stone Devours, Chancellor. Harkness and his wife, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Dulion and another, appellants, were defendants there. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. It is true that in Trotter v. Dobbs, in 38 Miss., the court held that if a judgment debtor, after judgment and before the day of sale, becomes a householder and the head of a family, he is entitled to hold his homestead exempt from sale under an execution previously levied. And it is true that this decision was followed in Inuin v.…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
W. T. Harkness became the debtor of T. P. Dulion and of B. Tucei, and while such debtor he made a voluntary conveyance of a lot of land in the city of Biloxi to his wife, Mrs. Sadie Harkness. Thereupon Dulion and Tucei filed their creditors’ bill, under § 503, code 1892, to obtain a decree for their several debts against W. T. Harkness, and to set aside the conveyance of the lot of land by him to his wife as fraudulent and void as to them, and to subject the property so conveyed to the satisfaction of their demands, for all which they had a decree. Thereafter Harkness and wife moved upon and…
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