Meade v. Stairs
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 30 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL NROM CARROLL CIRCUIT COURT. When the wife’s property is sold upon an agreement with her husband that the proceeds shall be invested in other property fer-her, and she permits him to use the proceeds in the purchase of other property, the title to which is made to the husband and subsequently sold by him, she can not assert claim to the proceeds of this property as against the creditors of the husband who became such subsequent, to the sale…
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Case 30 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL NROM CARROLL CIRCUIT COURT. When the wife’s property is sold upon an agreement with her husband that the proceeds shall be invested in other property fer-her, and she permits him to use the proceeds in the purchase of other property, the title to which is made to the husband and subsequently sold by him, she can not assert claim to the proceeds of this property as against the creditors of the husband who became such subsequent, to the sale of her property. (Maraman v. Maraman, 4 Met., 84; Pryor v. Smith, 4 Bush, 379; Nuckolls v. Scarce, MS. Op., Sept. 23,.…
1Opinion of the Court
•JUDGE HOLT
delivered the opinion oe the court.
January 11, 1883, G. S. Stairs sold and conveyed to George T. Thompson, a mill property to which he had the title and undisputed right.
He was then involved in debt. Thompson executed to him two one thousand dollar notes, payable in one and two years respectively, for that much óf the purchase money. January 12, 1883, he assigned them to-his wife, the appellee, N. M. Stairs, and immediately left the country and never returned. Soon after doing so, his creditors, the appellants, sued out attachments against the fund owing by Thompson. The wife, upon…
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- Pryor v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1868
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