Reade v. Livingston
New York Court of Chancery
In 1800, H. G. Livingston was indebted to the intestate, who brought an action against H. G. L,, and recovered a judgment in the Supreme Court, for 6,000 dollars and 42 cents, debt, and 92 dollars and 50 cents, costs, which was docketted the 7th of August, 1807. During this time, as the plaintiff alledged, H. G. L. owned real property to the value of above 40,000 dollars, but his personal estate was insufficient to pay this debt.
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In 1800, H. G. Livingston was indebted to the intestate, who brought an action against H. G. L,, and recovered a judgment in the Supreme Court, for 6,000 dollars and 42 cents, debt, and 92 dollars and 50 cents, costs, which was docketted the 7th of August, 1807. During this time, as the plaintiff alledged, H. G. L. owned real property to the value of above 40,000 dollars, but his personal estate was insufficient to pay this debt. On the, 7th of Decmber, 1805, H. G. L. executed a deed to G. Aspinwall, defendant, (for the consideration of 5,000 dollars, expressed,) of certain lands, being 5,483…
1Opinion of the Court
The cause stood over for consideration; and the following opinion was, this day, delivered by the court.
The Chancellor.
This case turns upon the validity of the conveyance by Henry G. Livingston to Gilbert Aspinwalh
The bill charges, that Livingston was indebted to John Reade, the plaintiff’s intestate, as early as the year 1800, in 6,000 dollars, and that in August term, 1807, Reade obtained a judgment against II. G. L., for upwards of that sum, and that 3,073 dollars of it remains unpaid. That by deed, dated the 7th of December, 1805, H. G. L. conveyed his lands, to the amount in value of…
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