76 So. 30 | Ala. | 1917
The appeal is by respondents from adverse rulings on their demurrers to the bill, original and as amended. The consideration here is necessarily confined to the matter presented by the appeal. This bill is filed by the appellee as a simple contract creditor of the appellants James H. Hard and Annie G. Hard, his wife. Along with these two respondents Herbert G. Hard, their son, is brought in as a party respondent: So on the theory that the son is the grantee in a conveyance by his parents, that is voidable at appellee's election, because infractive of the appellee's rights as creditor of the grantors therein. McCurdy v. Kenan,
It is insisted for the appellants that the bill is rendered multifarious because: (a) It seeks a discovery of assets which it is averred the debtors are concealing: (b) It seeks *265 the pronouncement that the debtors have made a conveyance of property in fraud of creditors, of whom appellee is one: (c) It seeks relief as upon the theory that the debtors have made a transfer or conveyance of all of their property, which act, under the statute, the creditor would have adjudged a general assignment for the benefit of all creditors.
There is unity in the right the complainant would assert and have enforced. A bill is not rendered multifarious by the fact that it seeks alternatively the relief desired under the phases of the bill which, for convenience, we have indicated above by the letters b and c. Smith v. Young,
James H. and Annie G. Hard, the original indebtedness never having been paid and being now unpaid.
It is insisted for appellants that the present effort is to hold Annie G. Hard to liability as a surety for the debt of her husband in violation of the provisions of Code, § 4497, which provides that "the wife shall not, directly or indirectly, become the surety for the husband." Unless the instrument itself affirmatively discloses her relation of suretyship for her husband's debt, the burden of proof is on the wife to show that relation. Bley v. Lewis,
There was no error in overruling the several demurrers.
Affirmed.
ANDERSON, C. J., and SAYRE and GARDNER, JJ., concur.