Bush v. . Roberts
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 20, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 20, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The plaintiffs, as administrators of one Henry T. Wakefield, deceased, brought the present action to have set aside and . declared fraudulent and void, as against a judgment recovered by them, a certain conveyance of real and personal property made by defendant Orrin G. Robbins, to defendant Henry L. Roberts. The defendant Robbins did not appear…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
Various facts, which he decided to be proved by the evidence, led the learned trial judge to conclude that the transfer of property by the defendant Robbins to the defendant Roberts was made with the intent to hinder, delay and defraud creditors, and, therefore, was void; but in the chain of evidence leading to his conclusion, which seems, so far as it establishes knowledge in the vendee, not very weighty, was a conversation had between one of the plaintiffs and Robbins, shortly after the death of the intestate, and prior to the transfer of the property. The evidence of this conversation was…
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