Hill v. Hill
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in -Equity, to set aside a deed as fraudulent against the plaintiff’s homestead and dower rights, and for other relief. Trial by the court. Transferred from the October term, 1906, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J. In 18*8 or 1889, Samuel D. Hill, one of the defendants, owned and lived upon a farm in Loudon worth $5,000. His children were a son and a daughter, aged respectively eighteen and fifteen years.
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Bill in -Equity, to set aside a deed as fraudulent against the plaintiff’s homestead and dower rights, and for other relief. Trial by the court. Transferred from the October term, 1906, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J. In 18*8 or 1889, Samuel D. Hill, one of the defendants, owned and lived upon a farm in Loudon worth $5,000. His children were a son and a daughter, aged respectively eighteen and fifteen years. At this time the plaintiff was employed as Hill’s housekeeper for about three years, after which she went to Connecticut. In November, 1894, he persuaded her to return to Loudon…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
It is found that the deed of Noveznber 22, 1894, was fraudulent and void as respects the plaintiff. In this situation the case stands as though that conveyance had never beezi made, and the single question for our consideration is whether the agreement of July 20, 1897, is or is not void. The defendants say that it is valid" and a complete defence to the plaintiff’s position.
When the plaintiff and Samuel D. Hill married, they entered into a relation from which they could not relieve themselves by contract, and which while they live cannot be dissolved except with the assezrt of the state. So…
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