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165 Ga. 413

Sherrer v. Holliday

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 17, 1927

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1927-12-17

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Decided 1927-12-17

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Gilbert, J.

¶1Holliday, trustee in bankruptcy, filed a suit in equity to cancel a voluntary deed executed by Sherrer to his wife, on the ground that it was executed with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud creditors. The defendants admitted execution of the deed, but denied any fraudulent intent. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendants filed a motion for new trial on the general grounds and two special grounds. The motion was overruled, and the defendants excepted. The first special ground undertakes to assign error upon admission of certain evidence, but. it does not state what objection was made at the time the evidence was admitted. The second special ground assigns error upon a charge to the jury “that when a transaction between husband and wife is attacked for fraud, by creditors of either, the onus is on the husband and wife to show that the transaction was fair.” The criticism is that the court failed to embody in this instruction “what was meant by the attack mentioned, and how it should be construed.”

¶2Because of failure to state what objection was made, if any, at the time the evidence was admitted, the first special ground of the motion is without merit.

¶3*414The excerpt from the charge was not incorrect in itself; and it was not error, in the absence of a timely written request, that the court failed to include a definition of the phrase, “attacked for fraud.”

¶4The verdict is supported bjr evidence.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.
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