Pfaff v. Prag
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This case was tried before the Court below (Phelps, J.,) without the aid of a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, which are sufficiently set out in the opinion of this Court. The Court below was requested by the parties to enter a judgment in accordance with its opinion on the law, the right to appeal from such judgment being reserved.
1Opinion of the CourtMcShebjry, J.
There are but two questions presented by this appeal. The first and principal one is this: Is a voluntary deed of trust, conveying, without reservation or exception, all of a debtor’s property to a trustee of his own selection, for the benefit of all the grantor’s creditors, without preference or priority, an act of insolvency within the meaning of Art. 47, sec. 24, of the Code? And the second and subordinate one is, whether the deed is defective on its face, and as a consequence constructively fraudulent? We think both questions are entirely free from difficulty.
Pfaff, the appellant, being a…
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- Collier v. HannaCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1889
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