Case Name: Wash et al. vs. Medley
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1833-05-08
Citations: 1 Dana 269
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wash et al. vs. Medley.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 269–270

Head Matter:
Wash et al. vs. Medley.
Replevin,
May 8.
That there was ri0VJSlble alte-tual possession †,.^- fen-ed, by deed, ei°“ same family, is not, per se, evidence of fraud: but a fact which may be submitted to the jury, whose province it is to decide the question, upon all the proof.
[Mr. Richardson for Plaintiff: Mr. Monroe for Defendant.]
Fkom the Circuit Court fob. Ahikusoh County.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The deed operated as a delivery of the slaves and personalty ; and as the parties lived together in the same iamny, the fact that no visible alteration in the actual possession accompanied and followed the deed, cannot be deemed, per se, fraudulent. It was a fact proper for tbe consideration of the jury. And whatever might be the proper deduction from the fact that every article of a large estate, even clown to ten pieces of bacon, was in-eluded in the deed, the jury, and not the court, should l>ave decided upon the fact together with all the other ^acls' Consequently, we are of the opinion, that the circuit court erred, in instructing the jury that " if they believed the evidence, the deed was fraudulent against the creditors, Triplett and his assignee."
Wherefore, the judgment of the circuit court must be reversed, and the cause remanded.