Legal Opinion

O'Donnell v. Hall

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 6, 1892Published

Writ of entry, dated July 21, 1890, to recover a parcel of land in Southampton. Plea, nul disseisin. After the former decision, reported 154 Mass. 429, the case was tried in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J. The jury returned a verdict for the demandant; and the tenant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.

The demandant is the purchaser of the demanded premises, for a valuable consideration, at a sale made on an execution against George W. Hall and Leander C. Hall, and the question at issue is whether the title of the tenant, obtained by conveyance from George W. Hall and Leander C. Hall to one Stannard, and by another from Stannard to her, is fraudulent as' against the creditors of the said George W. and Leander C.

*465The tenant asked the court to rule that, on the evidence, the demandant could not recover. The question involved in this request was decided adversely to the tenant when the case was…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. O'Donnell v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891

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