Liberty Trust Co. v. Hayes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 25, 1921, to reach and apply toward the satisfaction of a judgment debt owed to the plaintiff by the defendant Catherine A. Hayes, real estate which she had conveyed to her husband, the defendant Timothy F. Hayes. In the Superior Court, the suit was heard by Keating, J., a commissioner having been appointed under Equity Rule 35 to take the evidence.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 25, 1921, to reach and apply toward the satisfaction of a judgment debt owed to the plaintiff by the defendant Catherine A. Hayes, real estate which she had conveyed to her husband, the defendant Timothy F. Hayes. In the Superior Court, the suit was heard by Keating, J., a commissioner having been appointed under Equity Rule 35 to take the evidence. Material evidence, findings by the judge and exceptions saved by the plaintiff to rulings as to evidence are described in the opinion. By order of the judge, a decree was entered dismissing…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a suit in equity by the Liberty Trust Company, a judgment creditor of the defendant Catherine A. Hayes, to have the land numbered 345 West Fourth Street, South Boston, sold and the proceeds applied in payment of its said judgment and the costs of all proceedings, on the ground that said property was conveyed and transferred by Catherine A. Hayes to her husband, the defendant Timothy F. Hayes, without consideration, in fraud of creditors and of the plaintiff, and with intent to defeat and defraud the plaintiff. The suit was heard by a judge of the *253Superior Court; the evidence was taken…
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