Merchants Bank v. Page

Bond, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Oburt.

This is a proceeding to set aside a mortgage as in fraud of the creditors of the mortgagor, under the Fraudulent Conveyance Aeifc. Acts 1920, eh. 395. All the citations of statutory provisions in this opinion refer to that act. The quesr tion to he decided is whether a mortgage, given by a wife on all her assets., to repay money fraudulently obtained by her husband, thus forestalling criminal prosecution of the husband, may be avoided at the suit of .a creditor of the wife herself.

Hnder .an order of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, passed…