Clarke v. Black
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to set aside a conveyance of real estate alleged to liave been made in fraud of a creditor, brought .to the Superior Court in Hartford Count}*-, where a demurrer to the complaint was overruled (Thayer, J.~) and the cause was afterwards tried to court, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants.
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Action to set aside a conveyance of real estate alleged to liave been made in fraud of a creditor, brought .to the Superior Court in Hartford Count}*-, where a demurrer to the complaint was overruled (Thayer, J.~) and the cause was afterwards tried to court, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants. In 1896 Lucy H. Black (the plaintiff’s intestate) became the owner of the laud described in the complaint, and on September 28th, 1900, conveyed it through the defendant Dudley to her husband, Madison J. Black, the principal defendant. At the…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The finding of the trial court conclusively negatives the allegations of the complaint, in so far as they aver that the conveyance to the defendant was in fact made in fraud of Edward E. Rogers, with intent to avoid the payment of a debt then due from the grantor to said Rogers, and for this reason was fraudulent. As to the remaining allegation of the complaint, namely, that the conveyance to the defendant was made without any valuable consideration therefor, and for this reason was fraudulent, the court finds that at the time of the conveyance the grantor was indebted to Rogers to an amount…
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