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 872 ���FEDERAL REFOBIEB. ���ninth day of Jannarj the plaintif recovered a judgment against said Baker in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, on an indebtedness ■which existed at the date of said conveyance; and that plaintiff has been unable to collect said judgment, and that it remaina unsat- isfied. �The prayer of the bills is that said conveyance be deemed fraud- ulent and void. �The bills do not allege that the conveyance in question was frauda- ient, or that it was made with intent to hinder or defraud creditors. �The answer admits that the conveyance was voluntary, and was made as an advancement in consideration of love an(J affection, but denies that the debt on which the complainant's judgment was rendered existed against said Baker, or that Baker was embarrassed or unable to meet this obligation at the time said conveyance was executed. �The plaintiff filed general replications. �At the trial it was proved that the land conveyed by Baker to his daughter was only worth about $25,000, and that at the time he executed the conveyance he was worth, in unencumbered real estate, situated in the city and county of St. Louis, $300,000; that his unsecured indebtedness amounted to less than $15,000, and his secured indebtedness to about $95,000; and that the latter was secured in real estate worth about $160,000. �The defendants also introdueed evidence tending to prove that the debt upon which the plaintiff's judgment was founded did not exist at the time said conveyance was made; but the case was decided without reference to it. �Tlayden & Glover, for plaintiff. �Garlancl d Pollard, for defendants, �Tbeat, D. J. The rule by which cases of this kind are to be deter- mined, have, in the light of modern jurisprudence, become too well Bsttled to be overthrown. The views of this court were fully ex- pressed and afiirmed by the United States supreme court in a Mis- souri case. There is nothing in the facts presented to take the case out of those rulings. �Bills dismissed, with costs. ��� �