Spindler v. Atkinson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th of March- 1846, by the appellee, as permanent trustee of William C. Spindler, an insolvent debtor, to vacate certain conveyances of the insolvent as fraudulent against creditors.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th of March- 1846, by the appellee, as permanent trustee of William C. Spindler, an insolvent debtor, to vacate certain conveyances of the insolvent as fraudulent against creditors. The bill states, that Spindler being largely indebted and possessed of no property, except that embraced in the deeds attacked, with intent to delay, hinder and defraud his creditors, conveyed, on the 27th of March 1834, all his real estate in the city and county of Baltimore, to James Philips, senior, upon a pretended consideration of ten…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The admissions at the bar, on the part of the appellants’ counsel, have left only one of their points for our consideration, to wit: “Whether the sale and conveyance made by the sheriff to James Philips, invested him with a complete title to the property in controversy?” being that mentioned in the deed of 27th March 1834.
IJpon this admission the appellee is entitled to relief as against the cestui que trusts in the deed, that instrument being fraudulent and void as against the creditors of the grantor. But it is said that Philips occupied a different attitude after his purchases at the…
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