Cottrell v. Smith
Supreme Court of Iowa
Afjpeal from Limn Circuit Court. The plaintiff is a judgment -creditor of the defendant, Elizabeth C. Smith, and brings this action to set aside certain conveyances of real estate made by her to the other defendants, on the ground that the same are fraudulent and void. The court granted the relief as to a portion of the real estate in question, and denied it as to the remainder. Both parties appeal, the defendants perfecting their appeal first.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The real estate in question consists of one hundred and seventy acres of land in Linn county, the legal title to which stands as follows: to seventy acres, in the defendant, Charles C. Smith; to sixty acres, in the defendant, William L. Smith, and to forty acres, in the defendant, Enoch B. Smith. The whole formerly belonged to one Jackson Smith, now deceased, the husband of Elizabeth C. Smith, and father of the other defendants. He died intestate, and the land in question was set apart to the defendant, Elizabeth C., as a part of her distributive share. She afterward conveyed the several…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Trowbridge v. SypherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1880
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