Miller v. Hilton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In equity. This was a bill in equity praying that a deed from the defendant, Mark H. Hilton, to his wife, Mary H. Hilton, dated July 21, 1881, might be declared fraudulent and void as to the plaintiff. At the hearing on bill, answers, and oral evidence in the court below, the presiding justice dismissed the bill and the plaintiff took an appeal. The case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
The plaintiff had levied an execution against Hilton upon land previously conveyed by him to his wife, and brings this bill in equity to perfect his title upon the ground that the conveyance was fraudulent as to him. The conveyance was given July 21, 1881. Prior to the conveyance Hilton was owing two promissory notes to one Folsom, who had indorsed and delivered the same to the plaintiff’, of which Hilton was well aware. February 27, 1887, Hilton gave the plaintiff a new note in exchange for the two Folsom notes held by the plaintiff, and upon this note judgment has been rendered for damages…
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