Metropolitan Bank v. Durant
New Jersey Court of Chancery
The complainant obtained judgment against the defendant, C. F. Durant, in the Supreme Court of this state, February 27th, 1866, for $10,664.74. To the execution issued on this judgment the sheriff returned that the defendant had no goods or lands.
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The complainant obtained judgment against the defendant, C. F. Durant, in the Supreme Court of this state, February 27th, 1866, for $10,664.74. To the execution issued on this judgment the sheriff returned that the defendant had no goods or lands. A large amount of real estate which C. F. Durant had owned in 1862, had, by executions on certain judgments against him, been sold to the defendant, J. J. Durant, and by him conveyed to the defendant, E. H. Durant, the wife of C. F. Durant, and are now held by her. The complainant contends that these sales were a fraudulent contrivance between the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor,
The facts as admitted or clearly shown, are these : That in 1867, C. F. Durant owned the real estate in question, consisting of twenty-eight lots in Jersey City. They were situate in three distinct and separate parcels, one consisting of twenty-one lots, one of four lots, and one of three lots. They were worth about $100,000, were not encumbered, and he was nearly, if not wholly, free from dobt. On one *37parcel of these lots were three brick dwelling-houses, in one of which he resided, and in which he continues to reside. He also had a printing office in New York, where he…
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