Heffron v. Duggins

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing appellant’s suit to declare certain real property held by Harriet M. Duggins to be the property of appellant as trustee because of its alleged conveyance to her in fraud of creditors by appellee Charles Hayden Duggins, hereafter called the debt- or, some 12 years before he was adjudicated a bankrupt and 13 years before March 1, 1939, when the complaint was filed below.

The District Court first held the fraud had been committed and judgment was entered holding appellant, as such trustee, to be the owner of the property. The…