Moore v. Page
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT-OF ILLINOIS. This was a creditor’s bill to reach property conveyed by the debtor to his wife, and have it applied to the payment of the debt. The decree below sustained the conveyance, from which the creditor appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
It is no longer a disputed question that a husband may settle a portion of his property upon his wife, if he does not thereby impair the claims of existing creditors, and the settlement is not intended as a cover to future schemes of fraud. The settlement may be made either by the purchase of property and taking a deed thereof in her name, or by its transfer to trustees for her benefit. And his direct conveyance to her, when the fact that it is intended as such settlement is declared in the instrument or otherwise clearly established, will be sustained in equity against the claims of…
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