Rutherglen v. Wolf
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
In equity. On the eighth day of November, 1867, Samuel Wolf made a deed, in which his wife joined, conveying a lot of land and house in Petersburg, to Eli Kull, a brother-in-law; the property being alleged to have been worth about 82,000, and the purchase price set forth in the deed being $1,700. Eli Kull was one of the sons of Jacob Kull, and a member of the firm of Jacob Kull & Sons.
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In equity. On the eighth day of November, 1867, Samuel Wolf made a deed, in which his wife joined, conveying a lot of land and house in Petersburg, to Eli Kull, a brother-in-law; the property being alleged to have been worth about 82,000, and the purchase price set forth in the deed being $1,700. Eli Kull was one of the sons of Jacob Kull, and a member of the firm of Jacob Kull & Sons. Shortly after this, Wolf’s stock of goods, worth some $6,000, was taken by process of distress issued by the said Jacob Kull & Sons, the principal part of which was disposed of under that process, but a part of…
1Opinion of the Court
*97On a hearing of this petition before BOND, Circuit Judge, it was adjudged and decreed, among other things, that Max Cohen being a pendente lite purchaser of the house and lot in the bill mentioned, from Eli Null acquired no title thereto as against Wolf’s assignee in bankruptcy, and that the said Cohen do deliver possession of the same to the said as-signee, the plaintiff in this cause.
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