Schumacher v. Bell
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in aid of an execution, and to set aside certain conveyances of real and personal property and subject them to the lien of the execution.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in aid of an execution, and to set aside certain conveyances of real and personal property and subject them to the lien of the execution. Appellant Henry C. Schumacher had been surety on a dram-shop bond of one Jacob Helmuth, against whom a judgment had been rendered in favor of appellees on account of the unlawful sale of liquor to the husband of appellee Sarah Bell, and his consequent death…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The only question urged by appellants in their original brief and argument filed in the Appellate Court and re-filed in this court is, that there was no sufficient proof of fraud in the execution of the bill of sale of personal property and in the conveyances of real estate from Henry C. Schumacher to his son, William, to justify the decree rendered by the circuit court.
Section 4, chapter 59, of Hurd’s Statutes, provides as follows: “Every gift, grant, conveyance, assignment or transfer of or charge upon any estate, real or personal, or right or thing in action, or any rent or profit thereof,…
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