Banks v. Omaha Barb Wire Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, George E. Banks, as assignee of Mrs. E. H. Richardson, an insolvent debtor, to set aside a real estate mortgage alleged to have been given by said Richardson to the defendant in preference to her other creditors, and in fraud of the insolvency laws of this state, and also to recover certain collateral notes alleged to have been delivered by Richardson to the defendant for the same purpose. A decree was entered in the district court in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.

*129For more than a year prior to the 4th clay of September, 1886, Mrs.…