Hegstad v. Wysiecki
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Johanna Hegstad, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 6th day of July, 1916, upon the decision of the court dismissing the complaint after a trial at the Kings County Special Term. The action was brought to set aside certain conveyances on the ground that they were made with intent to defraud the plaintiff, a judgment creditor.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmab, J.:
The evidence in this case, all elicited by plaintiff from the defendants and their attorney, is without dispute or contradiction.
In 1910 the defendant Wysiecki, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, purchased ten apartment or flat houses in' Halsey street, Brooklyn, paid the consideration and took the title in the name of his cousin, Cecillia Von Warzewska, who was his housekeeper. At about the same time he conveyed sixteen other flat houses to her. No consideration was paid by Von Warzewska, but the understanding was that she should manage the property, pay to Wysiecki $5,000 a…
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