Stone v. Davenport Bros.
Stone v. Davenport Bros.
Opinion of the Court
On March 22, 1911, W. W. Gregg was the owner of the land described in this hill, and on that day conveyed to Wyatt H. Gregg. On August 23, 1911, Davenport Bros., wholesale merchants at Chattanooga, Tenn., along with other creditors of W. W. Gregg, ■ filed Iheir bill in the chancery court of Cullman county, Ala., to set aside and annul, as in fraud of W. W. Gregg’s creditors, the conveyance executed by W. W. Gregg to Wyatt H. Gregg; both of whom resided in Cullman county, Ala., and were parties to the bill. The land conveyed to Wyatt H. Gregg was situate in Marshall county, Ala. On December 12, 1911, while the mentioned cause was pending in the Cull-man chancery court, the complainant (appellant, Stone) in the bill under review on this appeal bought this land from Wyatt H. Gregg on a consideration of $1,600, $800 of which consideration was to be and was paid in cash and the remainder satisfied by the assumption and later payment, by the complainant, Stone, of two mortgages, on a presumably passing consideration, executed by Wyatt H. Gregg on April 28, 1911, some months before the hill was filed by W. W. Gregg’s creditors in the Cullman chancery court. On October 31, 1912, the Cullman chancery court rendered a decree granting the relief prayed and. canceling the conveyance of date March 22, 1911, from W. W. to Wyatt H. Gregg, complainant Stone’s grantor. This decree has not, so far as this record advises, been reversed or annulled. Later the decree rendered by the Cullman chancery. court was executed by a sale of this land to satisfy the demands of W. W. Gregg’s creditors, and. at this sale Davenport Bros, became the purchasers, their purchase being confirmed. On July 26, 1916, Davenport Bros, brought their action of ejectment against the complainant, Stone, in the Marshall circuit court to recover tlie possession of this land. Stone filed this bill, upon theories to be stated, to restrain the prosecution of that action, and an injunction pendente lite was issued; but subsequently the injunction was, on hearing, dismissed, and from this order this appeal is taken.
The order dissolving the Injunction pendente lite is reversed, and an order will be here entered reinstating such injunction until the final disposition of this cause.
Reversed and rendered.
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