Achille Bayart & Cie v. Crowe

BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a fraudulent transfer action brought by the plaintiff-appellant, Achille Bayart & Cie (Achille Bayart), to recover the value of its debt plus double damages from the defendants-appellees, Byron and Ruth Crowe. The case was tried before a jury. At the conclusion of the plaintiffs case, the defendants moved for judgment as a matter of law pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 50(a). Finding the plaintiffs evidence insufficient to permit a jury to conclude that there was value in the assets of the defendants’ corporation which were over and above the amount of its…