Legal Opinion

Chadbourn v. Williams

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided January 23, 1891PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Plaintiff, having recovered judgment of $7,428.55 against the defendant James M. Williams, on which execution had been returned wholly unsatisfied, brought this action in the district court for Olmsted county to set aside as fraudulent certain conveyances by which the title to real property had been transferred from the judgment debtor to his wife and codefendant.

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Plaintiff, having recovered judgment of $7,428.55 against the defendant James M. Williams, on which execution had been returned wholly unsatisfied, brought this action in the district court for Olmsted county to set aside as fraudulent certain conveyances by which the title to real property had been transferred from the judgment debtor to his wife and codefendant. The plaintiff appeals from an order refusing a new trial after a trial before Start, J., and judgment ordered for defendants.

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

The plaintiff, a judgment creditor of the defendant James M., brought this action to set aside a conveyance of real estate made by the judgment debtor to his wife and codefendant, Maria H. The allegations of the plaintiff are that, in 1875, he and James M. became co-guarantors of the payment of certain promissory notes of a corporation of which both were stockholders; that, the principal having failed to pay the notes, he was compelled to pay the whole of them, in 1884; and that he afterwards brought suit against James M. for contribution, and obtained judgment against him, in 1888, on which…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Stickney v. StickneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  2. Laib v. BrandenburgSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Title Insurance Etc. Co. v. IngersollCalifornia Supreme Court · 1908
  2. Carter v. BeckerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1904
  3. In re Schmidt's EstateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
  4. Darelius v. Commonwealth Mortgage Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
  5. Stramann v. ScheerenColorado Court of Appeals · 1895

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