O'Neal v. First National Bank
O'Neal v. First National Bank
Opinion of the Court
1. Where a husband, having in his possession certain money belonging to his wife, purchased a parcel of land, paying therefor partly with this money of his wife and partly with money which he borrowed in his own name, and with his wife’s consent took the title to the land in himself, with the understanding, evidenced in parol only, that when the sum so borrowed by him was repaid by her to him he would convey the land to her, the legal title to the land was in the husband, and the wife acquired neither legal title nor a perfect equity thereto, even upon payment to the husband of the sum so borrowed, until the husband executed the deed. Likewise the title to crops severed from the land before the deed from the husband to the wife was executed was in the husband, and ivas subject to a common-law judgment rendered against him in behalf of one of his creditors.
2. Where a levy is made upon property found in the possession of tne defendant in fi. fa., and a claim is filed thereto, the burden of proof rests upon the claimant. Where property levied upon and found in the possession of the defendant in fi. fa. was a bale of cotton, and there was
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