Allen v. Lyness
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for refusing to pay a judgment debt, while having sufficient estate, not exempt from execution, concealed and withheld so that the same could not be taken by legal process; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Peck, J.; verdict and judgment for defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
This complaint (treating it as both parties have done, as charging fraud) states facts which, if true, gave an action under General Statutes, § 1099. It was unnecessary to aver that the action was brought on the statute. Williams v. Mead, 80 Conn. 434, 436, 68 Atl. 1009. The complaint did not describe the estate concealed or withheld, but it was, as the plaintiff claimed on the trial, an interest in land.
It was conceded that the defendant owned an equity of redemption in this land, under a deed from her father, from 1893 to 1899; that she then conveyed it to her only child, Margaret A.…
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