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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 2, Page 112   View pdf image (33K)
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112 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
THE CHANCELLOR:
On the 25th of October, 1844, the complainants filed their
bill on the equity side of Charles County Court, praying that
certain conveyances which had been made by the defendant,
Dent, to the defendant, Priscilla, might be set aside and va-
cated as fraudulent against his creditors. This bill alleged
that the defendant, Dent, had been, by the appointment of the
Orphans Court of Charles county, acting as the guardian of
the complainants, and in that capacity had become indebted to
each of them in a large sum of money; that he, also, is indebted
to other persons, by judgment and otherwise, and is greatly
embarrassed in his circumstances. That being thus embar-
rassed, and unable to pay his debts, and with a view to defraud
the complainants and his other creditors, the said Dent, on the
15th of July, 1844, executed to his daughter, Priscilla Richards,
a bill of sale of all his personal property, consisting of slaves,
&c., and on the same day, and for the like fraudulent purpose,
and to hinder and delay his creditors, he conveyed to her all
his real estate.
The bill charges, that the consideration of $7000, mentioned
in each of these deeds is colorable merely, neither Richards
nor his wife, the grantee, having paid or having been able to pay
the same, and that they are fraudulent and covinous, and made
for the purpose of hindering and delaying the complainants and
the other creditors of the grantor. That immediately after the
execution of the deeds, the Orphans Court, upon application,
revoked the authority of Dent, as guardian, and appointed the
person in whose name this suit is instituted. The bill then,
after stating other circumstances indicative of the alleged fraud,
charges that Dent was, at the time it was filed, a petitioner for
the benefit of the insolvent laws, and had returned that he had
no property to surrender for the payment of his debts. The
prayer was, that the deeds might be set aside as fraudulent
against creditors, the complainants paid their claim, and for
general relief.
The answer of Richards and his wife, deny any personal
knowledge of the indebtedness of Dent to the complainants, or of

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