Wight v. Rohlffs

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendant in an action to set aside a gift deed made by Patrick Cahill about ten months prior to his death and recorded five weeks after he died.

The action was brought under the authority of Civil Code sections 3439 and 3442, which are now merged in the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (Stats. 1939, Chap. 329). Section 3439 declared void as against creditors transfers of property made with intent to delay or defraud any creditor or other person of his demands; and section 3442 provided: “ . . . that any transfer or encumbrance of property made or…