Annis v. Butterfield
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In equity. On appeal by plaintiff. Bill in Equity to set aside a certain conveyance of real estate as fraudulent to creditors. On demurrer the bill was dismissed by the Presiding Justice below, and the complainant appealed. The'case is stated in the opinion.
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In equity. On appeal by plaintiff. Bill in Equity to set aside a certain conveyance of real estate as fraudulent to creditors. On demurrer the bill was dismissed by the Presiding Justice below, and the complainant appealed. The'case is stated in the opinion. We claim that the title to real estate fraudulently conveyed by the debtors vests in the trustee so that he can transfer the title thus vested and the right to have the fraudulent conveyance set aside by proceeding under the Bankruptcy Act. In the case at bar under the Bankruptcy Act admittedly the Trustee was subrogated to the rights of…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Bill in equity to set aside a conveyance fraudulent as to creditors. The case comes up on demurrer. The bill alleges that in 1891, Butterfield & Gates, copartners, owned in fee the real estate described in the bill, and in that year conveyed it to Eliza J. Gates, wife of the partner Gates, without any consideration moving from her; that in 1893 Butterfield & Gates became indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of two thousand dollars; that in the summer of 1896 Mrs. Gates erected buildings on this real estate, of the value of four thousand dollars, wholly out of money, labor and materials…
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