stated in his former report, except the 5th paragraph thereof and this cause having
set down by Complainant's solicitors upon the pleadings, proofs and Master's reports,
for final hearing and the Court being advised in the premises thereupon, upon
consideration hereof, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows, to wit:
1st. That the said reports and findings of the said Special Master in Chancery
be and the same are herein and hereby confirmed in every particular.
2nd. That the said Joel T. Weeks and T.M. Cauthen, heretofore trading as Weeks &
Cauthen, at the time of the filing of Complainant's bill of complaint were indebted
to said complainants in the sum of $370.76 and $10.16 costs and interest
thereon since February 27, 1894 for amount due upon one Judgment and execution
and in the sum of $602.81 and $21.73 costs and interest thereon since May
14, 1895 upon another Judgment and execution and that said Judgments were and
are, a lien upon the property set forth and described in complainants' bill of
complaint
3rd. That the assignment made by defendant Joel T. Weeks on the 2nd day of November
AD 1893 to H.M. Tillis Assignee and recorded upon the records of Alachua County
Florida on the 2nd, of November AD 1893 in Deed Book 39 at pages 503 & 504
was made by the said Joel T. Weeks for the purpose of hindering, delaying
defeating and defrauding the Complainants and other creditors of the firm of
Weeks & Cauthen and was therefore void and that the said deed of assignment
be and the same is hereby cancelled and annulled and the Clerk of this Court
is directed to make Marginal entry of said cancellation upon the records
where said deed is recorded.
4th. That the property assigned to said H.M. Tillis Assignee, by said deed of
assignment was partnership property owned by the said firm of Weeks and
Cauthen and the attempted dissolution was fraudulent and the said amount
of $1000.00 of personal property set apart to the said Joel T. Weeks as his homestead
exemption out of said property by the said H.M. Tillis assignee, was without
authority of law and the turning over of said sum of $518.50 to the said
Joel T. Weeks by the said H.M. Tillis assignee on the 7th day of March 1894 was
and is without authority of law and the said Joel T. Weeks is herein and hereby
required to pay the said sum of $1000.00 and the said sum of $518.50 over
to Robert E. Davis as Special Master in Chancery to be applied by said
Master in payment of complainant's decree.
5th. That the said deed made on the 22nd, day of August, 1892 by the
said Joel T. Weeks to his wife Catherine C. Weeks and recorded on the 22nd
day of August, 1892, on the records of Alachua County, Florida, in Deed Book
"37" at pages 261, conveying to her that certain lot, tract, piece or parcel
of land situated lying and being in the County of Alachua in the State of
Florida and known, distinguished and described as follows, to wit: Being a
fractional part of the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section Twenty Three (23) in Township
Eight (8) South of Range Twenty one (21) East commencing at a point thirteen
hundred (1300) feet North easterly in the center of the Transit RR from a
point where the south line of said quarter section intersects the said Transit
RR thence at right angles with the said RR south Easterly one hundred and
thirty five (135) feet; thence parallel with the said RR one hundred (100)
feet, thence North Westerly one hundred and thirty five (135) feet to