Woodward v. Wyman
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case heard at the June Term, 1880, Yeazey, J., presiding. The court rendered judgment, pro forma, that the trustees are chargeable. The facts found by the commissioner are substantially stated in the opinion. Parol evidence was admissible to show the consideration of the deed.
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Case heard at the June Term, 1880, Yeazey, J., presiding. The court rendered judgment, pro forma, that the trustees are chargeable. The facts found by the commissioner are substantially stated in the opinion. Parol evidence was admissible to show the consideration of the deed. Beach v. Bullard, 12 Yt. 100 ; 22 Yt. 506 ; Perkins v. Adams, 30 Yt. 230 ; Allen v. Spofford, 42 Yt. 117. The fact that the trustees are under obligation to support the principal defendant, is not such a credit as can be reached by trustee process. Stanley v. Bobbins, 36 Vt. 432. The case shows that there were no “…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Taft, J.
The defendant, Henry Wyman, in May, 1876, conveyed all his estate, real and personal, to his five nephews, the persons summoned as trustees in this cause, taking from them an obligation to support himself and his sister Rebecca, during their natural lives, at their death to pay their funeral expenses, and to pay certain indebtedness of the said Henry Wyman, the agreement between them at the time being that they would pay all of his supposed indebtedness. It was the intention to insert in the obligation the names of all the creditors that the…
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