Still v. Saunders

Citations

• 8 Cal. 281

Syllabus

<p>Chancery cases come before this Court upon the pleadings, testimony, and decree, and we must look to the whole record, and see if there is any error in the final decree.</p> <p>The verdict of a jury in a chancery case is only advisory to the Chancellor, or this Court.</p> <p>Where husband and wife execute a conveyance of their homestead, which the husband, delivers to the purchaser, before the purchase-money therefor is paid, which is afterwards fraudulently attached, in a suit brought by the real, though not the ostensible purchaser, against the husband alone: Held, that equity will compel a cancellation of the deed so obtained.</p>