Legal Opinion

Frost v. Parker

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 4, 1884PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. Action in chancery to subject certain lands of the wife to a judgment against her husband. There was a decree in the district court subjecting a part of the lands to the judgment. The wife appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.

I. The defendants are husband and wife. The petition shows that in 1876 a judgment was rendered against the husband, which was subsequently assigned to plaintiff; that the notes upon which the judgment was rendered were executed by the husband for an organ, purchased by both husband and wife for use in their family, and so used, and that its purchase was a part of the family expenses; that, when the suit on the notes was commenced, the husband was the owner of certain land, which he subsequently conveyed to one Bray ton, who immediately conveyed it to the wife; that these conveyances were…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Smedley v. FeltSupreme Court of Iowa · 1875
  2. Farrar v. EmerySupreme Court of Iowa · 1879

3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Black v. SippyOregon Supreme Court · 1888
  2. Boatwright v. American Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1920
  3. Akron Savings Bank v. CharlsonSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1968
  4. Smith v. KnightSupreme Court of Iowa · 1893
  5. Croddy v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894

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