Riddle v. Cutter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine Circuit Court. Action in equity. The plaintiff Joseph Riddle, being the owner of certain real estate, conveyed the same to the defendant Cutter upon certain expressed trusts.
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Appeal from Muscatine Circuit Court. Action in equity. The plaintiff Joseph Riddle, being the owner of certain real estate, conveyed the same to the defendant Cutter upon certain expressed trusts. The object of the action is to have the trust deed “set aside and held for naught, as being unadvised, improvident, without consideration, and as not expressing the intention of the parties thereto, and as being fraudulent as to them; ” and that by proper decree the defendant Cutter be compelled to convey the. premises to the plaintiff Minerva, who is the wife of said Joseph. The defendants other…
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
The petition states that the deed of trust was executed in 1868, under the following circumstances:
1. trust: revocation: death of trustee. “The said Joseph Riddle hawing been, and being at that time, of intemperate, reckless and extravagant habits, and hawing heretofore sqitandered and wasted, through and by reason of said habits, all of a large patrimony save and except the above described real estate, which was an improved farm, and being on a visit to the city of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, where reside most . of his friends and relatives, Alpheus Cutter, his brother-in-law, the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Leighton v. OrrSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876
- Falk v. TurnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
3Cited by6 opinions
- Kazaras v. Manufacturers Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1957
- Anderson v. KemperCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
- State v. LockerbySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- Felton v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
- Wallace v. Industrial Trust CompanySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1909
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