Matthews v. Thompson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills IN EQUITY filed respectively November 19, 1900, and August 6,1900, one by Nathan Matthews, Jr., administrator with the will annexed of the insolvent estate of Edward Thompson, seeking to set aside, as fraudulent and void as against the creditors of that estate, a conveyance of certain land on Huntington Avenue, made by Edward Thompson through a third person to the defendant V. Mabel Thompson, or, in the alternative, to have the defendant V. Mabel Thompson declared…
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Two bills IN EQUITY filed respectively November 19, 1900, and August 6,1900, one by Nathan Matthews, Jr., administrator with the will annexed of the insolvent estate of Edward Thompson, seeking to set aside, as fraudulent and void as against the creditors of that estate, a conveyance of certain land on Huntington Avenue, made by Edward Thompson through a third person to the defendant V. Mabel Thompson, or, in the alternative, to have the defendant V. Mabel Thompson declared a trustee for the benefit of the plaintiff as administrator; the other by Henry Thompson, Elizabeth B. Thompson and…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
Edward Thompson, the testator of the plaintiff in the first suit, became indebted from time to time in a considerable sum to his unmarried sisters, Elizabeth B. Thompson and Frances M. Thompson, who were old ladies unfamiliar with business. Of his own motion, he made to them, as security, a mortgage of the real estate in question, subject to other mortgages which together amounted to about $37,000, and afterwards he caused them to foreclose this mortgage. A conveyance of the property, subject to the prior mortgages, was made to his son, who held it as agent of these sisters of the testator.…
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