Prendergast v. Cassidy

In 1846 John R. Hiahel and wife executed an act of donation of a certain piece of land in favor of Margccret Cassidy, who accepted the same, and made them at the same time a manual gift of the sum of eleven hundred dollars, which was the full value of the land.

The plaintiff, who is a judgment creditor of Alexandw' Slum, the husband of the defendant, seeks to subject that property to his judgment on the ground that the donation was a sale in disguise, made to the wife during the existence of the community to which the property sold belongs.

The only defence, besides the plea of the general…