Voorhees v. Carpenter

The course pursued in argument narrows this controversy to a single controlling question, which may be stated thus: Can a creditor maintain a suit to set aside a fraudulent conveyance* made by a debtor who afterwards executes a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors in a case where the trust is accepted and fully administered, but where neither the assignee nor the creditor has any knowledge of the fraudulent conveyance until after the final settlement of the trust and the discharge of the assignee ?

The initial proposition is free from difficulty, for it is established law that an…