Legal Opinion

De Guire v. St. Joseph Lead Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri

Decided March 20, 1889PublishedCited by 2 opinions

At Law. On demurrer to defense. Ejectment by Emily and Paul W. De G-uire against the St. Joseph Lead Company.

1Opinion of the CourtBrewer, J.

In addition to the motion heretofore decided hy me,1 there is a to one defense. The action is in ejectment. That defense is that the female plaintiff holds title by deed from her father, *66made some 30 years since. That conveyance was a conveyance without' consideration, and in fraud of the rights of the grantor’s creditors, he being then hopelessly insolvent. ' Subsequently one of these creditors put his claim in judgment, caused execution to be issued and theproperty sold, and at the saleitwas bid in bya third party, under whom the defendant claims. This sale was made over 20 years ago. The…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Dickerson v. ColgroveSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  2. Kirk v. HamiltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1880

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ward v. CochranCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
  2. Lee v. WysongCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1904

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