125 Ala. 372 | Ala. | 1899
The bill in this cause was filed to have declared fraudulent certain conveyances executed in 1890 by the respondent, John Gamble, to his children, liis co-respondents. It appears from the averments of the bill that Gamble’s indebtedness to the complainants •arose in 1884, and was reduced to judgment on March 22, 3.890. That executions were issued upon this judgment and returned “no property found.” The bill charges That the several conveyances made by Gamble to his corespondents were voluntary. The answer of the respond
The answers of the respondents in this case being. AAiholly insufficient in aArerring affirmative matter of defense, the burden of Avhich was upon the respondents to-aver and prove, and being fatal to the rights of the complainants, there Avas no error committed by the chancellor in granting the relief- sought by the complainants’’ bill.
An examination of the testimony in this case illustrates forcibly the reason for the doctrine Avhich we have-announced, Gamble, the insolvent debtor, in his testimony says that the sole consideration for the deeds which he executed was the payment by his children, who are his co-respondents, of $1,100 which he owed Foust. He shows in his testimony that the lands were worth $2,000 — $900 more than the amount paid by his grantees to Foust. 1-Iis testimony makes the transaction as against the complainants fraudulent. Some of the respondents undertake to set up by their testimony adverse possession to a portion of the lands for more than ■ten years before the execution of the conveyance to .them by their fathers. All of them, however, admit that as a part of the consideration of the deeds to. them was-the payment by them-of the Foust debt. And it is our opinion that the sole -consideration for these convey
The decree of the court below must be affirmed.