Salmon v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of ejectment for three pieces of land in Weston. The general issue was pleaded, and closed to the court by agreement of the parties. The cause was heard at Fairfield, December term 1815, by Edmond, Smith and Hosmer, Js. It was admitted, by both parties, that Stephen Sherwood was formerly the owner of the demanded premises.
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THIS was an action of ejectment for three pieces of land in Weston. The general issue was pleaded, and closed to the court by agreement of the parties. The cause was heard at Fairfield, December term 1815, by Edmond, Smith and Hosmer, Js. It was admitted, by both parties, that Stephen Sherwood was formerly the owner of the demanded premises. The plaintiff claimed title thereto, by virtue of the levy of an execution in his favour against Stephen Sherwood in 1814. The defendant claimed title by virtue of a deed from Stephen Sherwood to his son Salmon Sherwood, dated the 17th of December 1798 ;…
1Opinion of the Court
Swift, Ch. J.
Fraudulent and voluntary conveyances are void as to creditors; but in the case of a voluntary conveyance, a distinction is made between the children of the grantor and strangers. Mere indebtedness at the time *543will not, in all cases, render a voluntary conveyance void as to creditors, where it is a provision for a child in consideration of love and affection ; for if all gifts by way of settlement to children, by men in affluent and prosperous circum*544stances, were to be rendered void upon a reverse of fortune, it would involve children in the ruin of their parents, and in many…
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