delivered the opinion of the court.
The complainants are judgment creditors of Henry Smith. They caused executions to issue upon which a portion of their debt was made and a return of nulla bona as to the rest. They filed this bill to set aside certain conveyances of said Smith to the other defendants, Leeper & Carter, of certain real and personal property, as having been made fraudulently to injure and delay creditor's, and to have satisfaction of their debts out of said property. The cause was tried upon bill, answers, replications and the report of the clerk and master; from all which it appears that the defendant, Smith, being largely indebted to the complainants and others, and suits by those others being at the time pending against him, did by separate deeds to Leeper & Carter, who are his brothers-in-law, of nearly the same date, convey to them in several portions, all his real and personal estate, comprising lands, negroes, merchandize, horses, cattle, and every species of property whatever, belonging to him, in consideration of money to be paid him, after a long credit, varying from tentó five years, and the payment of which was secu red by the bills single, of the said Leeper & Carter, taken separately for the several portions of property purchased by them, the said Smith being left in the possession, and with the management