Bailey v. Ryder
New York Court of Appeals
This was a creditor’s bill upon a judgment in favor of the plaintiff’s bank against the defendants, William Ryder and Robert H., Jesse and Henry Lounsbury, recovered in August, 1843. The bill was filed in the court of chancery in October, 1845, and sought, among other things, to reach, and apply upon the judgment, about twelve hundred acres of land, in the State of Indiana, which it was alleged that William L. Ryder, in 1836, had caused to be purchased with his own money,…
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This was a creditor’s bill upon a judgment in favor of the plaintiff’s bank against the defendants, William Ryder and Robert H., Jesse and Henry Lounsbury, recovered in August, 1843. The bill was filed in the court of chancery in October, 1845, and sought, among other things, to reach, and apply upon the judgment, about twelve hundred acres of land, in the State of Indiana, which it was alleged that William L. Ryder, in 1836, had caused to be purchased with his own money, the title being taken in trust for himself, in the name of his cousins Jesse and Aaron L. Ryder, who were also made…
1Opinion of the CourtJewett, J.
The complainant insists that that part of the decree dismissing his bill with costs should be reversed, and that the defendants, Jesse Ryder and Aaron L. Ryder, should be decreed to be trustees for the judgment debtor, William Ryder, for the land in Indiana, for which they took conveyances in their own name, and for which William Ryder paid the purchase money to the amount of $1500.
The ground assumed for a decree declaring John Ryder and Aaron L, Ryder to be trustees for William Ryder, of the land in Indiana, was, that as he had advanced about one-third part of the money expended in the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mitchell v. BunchNew York Court of Chancery · 1831
- Thomas v. AustinNew York Supreme Court · 1848
3Cited by3 opinions
- Curtis v. HidenSupreme Court of Virginia · 1915
- People ex rel. McDonald v. KeelerNew York Supreme Court · 1884
- United States v. CurtisDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1882