Legal Opinion

Hoxie v. Price

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1872PublishedCited by 12 opinions

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Action to set aside, as being fraudulent as against the creditors of Samuel Price, a certain conveyance of lands made by said Price and his wife, Jane P. Price, to one J. House, on the 2d of December, 1867, and a reconveyance thereof by said House to said Jane P. Price on the 6th of December, 1867 ; also, a patent issued by the state to said Jane P. Price, on the 2d of May, 1868, on a certificate of purchase previously held…

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Action to set aside, as being fraudulent as against the creditors of Samuel Price, a certain conveyance of lands made by said Price and his wife, Jane P. Price, to one J. House, on the 2d of December, 1867, and a reconveyance thereof by said House to said Jane P. Price on the 6th of December, 1867 ; also, a patent issued by the state to said Jane P. Price, on the 2d of May, 1868, on a certificate of purchase previously held by her husband. The plaintiff claims to have purchased said lands, and a certain other forty-acre tract held by,Price…

1Opinion of the CourtOole, J.

We have but little doubt about the facts of this case. The evidence, we think, fully supports the conclusion reached by the court below, that the conveyances mentioned in the record from the defendants, Price and wife, to House, and by the latter to Mrs. Price, and also the patent from the state to Mrs. Price of the forty-acre tract on section twenty-two, were fraudulent and void as to the creditors of Price. It is true that Price and wife both testify that these lands were jmrchased by Mrs. Price, and paid for out of her separate estate, long before the note to Reynolds was given. But Price…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wood v. . ChapinNew York Court of Appeals · 1856
  2. Beard v. DedolphWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
  3. Avery v. JuddWisconsin Supreme Court · 1866

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Pillow v. SentelleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1887
  2. Brickley v. WalkerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Semmens v. WaltersWisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
  4. Mayers v. KaiserWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
  5. Martin v. RemingtonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1898

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