Guernsey v. Douglas

This is an action by Guernsey, as trustee in bankruptcy of E. W. Douglas, under the Bankrupt Act of the United States, against Douglas and his wife, to set aside a deed from Douglas to his wife for five lots near Stockton, and to vacate a declaration of homestead thereon afterward filed by the wife. The court decided that the homestead was valid as to one of the lots, being the lot numbered 8, on which Douglas had built a house in which he and his wife at the time resided, but that it was invalid as to the other lots, being the lots numbered 5, 6, 7, and 9, and further, that the deed was made…