Durack v. Wilson

The plaintiff as trustee in bankruptcy of the defendant Hattie P. Wilson brings this suit in equity to set aside a mortgage dated April 1, 1901, made by the bankrupt to the defendant Gordon to secure the sum of $2,500 and a deed made by the bankrupt to her sister, the defendant Weeks, dated April 8, 1901, for the alleged consideration of $2,500. The property transferred by the mortgage and deed was the bankrupt’s undivided one-half part of a parcel of two and one-half acres of land situated at Locust Valley, near Peacock Point in Nassau county. The mortgage and deed were acknowledged before…