136 So. 797 | Ala. | 1931
Bill by alleged judgment creditor to subject property alleged to have been conveyed in fraud of creditors.
The case involves the same transactions considered by this court in Cooke v. Fenner Beane,
The bill avers complainant was an existing creditor at the time of such transactions. In the evidence it developed that the original indebtedness upon which the alleged judgment was recovered was created subsequent to the alleged fraudulent transfers. This was a fatal variance. The issues are different. McCrory v. Donald,
It may be said also there is a failure of proof of material averments of the bill; averments going to the status of complainant as an existing creditor.
The existence of a judgment as alleged was put in issue by the answer.
A duly certified transcript of the judgment itself, not the certificate made by the clerk for registration in the office of the judge of probate, is the proper evidence of the judgment. Such certificate made and recorded for the purpose of effecting a judgment lien cannot be substituted for the judgment itself, where the issues call for proof of the fact of an existing judgment. Warren v. Jones,
The decree denying relief may be sustained for the above reasons; and we need not consider whether the evidence makes out a case in favor of a subsequent creditor.
Affirmed.
ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and FOSTER, JJ., concur. *390
