Courvoirsier v. Bouvier
Nebraska Supreme Court
Bouvier, tbe defendant in error, brought his action against Eugenie Courvoirsier in the district court of Washington County, to obtain a re-conveyance of certain real estate, formerly owned by him, and which he had conveyed to her through the medium of a trustee, she being at the time of said conveyance the wife of Bouvier. Judgment being rendered in his favor, Mrs. Courvoirsier brought the cause here by petition in error. The facts fully appear in the opinion of the court.
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Bouvier, tbe defendant in error, brought his action against Eugenie Courvoirsier in the district court of Washington County, to obtain a re-conveyance of certain real estate, formerly owned by him, and which he had conveyed to her through the medium of a trustee, she being at the time of said conveyance the wife of Bouvier. Judgment being rendered in his favor, Mrs. Courvoirsier brought the cause here by petition in error. The facts fully appear in the opinion of the court. I. The petition does not state a cause of action in this, that the petition shows that the parties were husband and…
1Opinion of the Court
Lake, Ch. J.
This action was brought in the court below to have a trust declared, and to obtain a re-conveyance of certain real estate formerly owned by the defendant in error, and which he had conveyed through the medium of a trustee, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight to the plaintiff in error, who was then his wife. The court found the equities with the complainant, and decreed a reconveyance of the premises.
To support the judgment of the court below, it is necessary that the record disclose such a state of facts, connected with the transfer of the title from Bouvier to his wife,…
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