Meigs v. Dibble
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Allegan. (Arnold, J.) * Bill in aid of execution. Complainants appeal. The facts are stated in the ■opinion. 1. If the owner of a homestead, in order to defraud his creditors, conveys it to another, with a secret reservation in favor of himself or some member of his family, neither he, nor they in case of his death, can claim another homestead, nor an allowanee in lieu thereof, out of the body of his estate not embraced in such conveyance; citing Luther v. Drake,…
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Appeal from Allegan. (Arnold, J.) * Bill in aid of execution. Complainants appeal. The facts are stated in the ■opinion. 1. If the owner of a homestead, in order to defraud his creditors, conveys it to another, with a secret reservation in favor of himself or some member of his family, neither he, nor they in case of his death, can claim another homestead, nor an allowanee in lieu thereof, out of the body of his estate not embraced in such conveyance; citing Luther v. Drake, 21 Iowa, 92; Currier v. Sutherland, 54 N. H. 475; and this is but another application of the obvious rule that, as to…
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
The bill in this cause was filed September 5. 1887, in aid of an execution levied upon the N. W. £ of S. E. £ of section 16, township 4 N., range 14 W., Allegan county, on June 30, 1887, which execution was-issued upon a .judgment in favor of complainants, and against defendant, in the circuit court for Allegan county, on June 14, 1887, for the sum of about $426. The testimony was taken in open court, and on the hearing the court below dismissed the bill. Complainants appeal.
The claim made by complainants’ counsel, in their *103brief, is that at the. time of the rendition of said judgment, and…
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