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Sargent v. Salmond

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 15, 1847PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Bill in equity against William Salmond and Mary P. Sal-0 mond. In the opinion of the Court will be found a recital of all the material facts. said that the conveyance to the daughter was fraudulent against creditors, both as it respected the real estate and the note transferred to Coombs. The land became substituted for the notes, and that land was conveyed to Mary P. Salmond without consideration, and is fraudulent as to creditors.

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Bill in equity against William Salmond and Mary P. Sal-0 mond. In the opinion of the Court will be found a recital of all the material facts. said that the conveyance to the daughter was fraudulent against creditors, both as it respected the real estate and the note transferred to Coombs. The land became substituted for the notes, and that land was conveyed to Mary P. Salmond without consideration, and is fraudulent as to creditors. We could not make a levy upon this land, because the title was never in the debtor, William Salmond; and it cannot be reached but in equity, and can be there.…

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*541The opinion of tlie Court, Shf.pley and Tenney Justices, W hitman C. J. not being present, was drawn up by

Tenney J.

In June, 1837, the defendant, William Sal-mond, being upon notes as surety for P. & E. T. Morrill & Co., conveyed all his real estate, which was of considerable value, to his three daughters without any valuable consideration. He also indorsed two notes, which he held for money lent, against that firm; and he caused a suit to be brought thereon in the name of Robert Coombs, and an attachment to be made upon the real estate of the firm, or some of its members. Coombs had no…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. JohnstonTennessee Supreme Court · 1847

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Allen v. KaneWashington Supreme Court · 1914
  2. Beach v. BoyntonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1853
  3. State Bank v. PlummerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1912
  4. Stewart Lumber Co. v. DownsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909
  5. Gottlieb v. ThatcherU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado · 1888

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