Stanton-Thompson Co. v. Crane
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Washoe county; A. E. Cheney, District Judge: Action by the Stanton-Thompson Company against E. Crane and others to set aside certain conveyances by E. Crane’to his daughters, defendants Amelia H. Howard and A. G. Stiles, as in fraud of creditors, in which judgment was rendered against all the defendants by default.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Washoe county; A. E. Cheney, District Judge: Action by the Stanton-Thompson Company against E. Crane and others to set aside certain conveyances by E. Crane’to his daughters, defendants Amelia H. Howard and A. G. Stiles, as in fraud of creditors, in which judgment was rendered against all the defendants by default. Afterwards defendants Howard and Stiles filed a motion to set aside and vacate the judgment, and for leave to answer and defend, on the ground that no copy of the complaint and summons had been served on them, and that they had…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Massey, j.:
This suit was instituted in May, 1894, to set aside certain conveyances of real estate alleged to have been made by E. Crane to his daughters, Amelia H. Howard and A. G. Stiles, for the purpose of defrauding creditors. The defendants, E. Crane and Mary E. Crane, were duly served with summons and appeared to the action by attorney, and demurred to the complaint, which demurrer was subsequently overruled and time given in which to answer. On the 28th day of January, 1897, R. M. Clarke, who had been employed as the attorney for the respondents, Stiles and Howard, by E. O.…
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