Kickbusch v. Corwith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity by the plaintiffs, as judgment creditors of one J. E. Leahy, to set aside as fraudulent a number of mortgages, deeds, and other transfers of real'and personal property made by Leahy.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity by the plaintiffs, as judgment creditors of one J. E. Leahy, to set aside as fraudulent a number of mortgages, deeds, and other transfers of real'and personal property made by Leahy. The transactions involved were numerous, and the testimony voluminous; but the dispute was principally as to the proper legal inferences to be drawn from the facts, rather than as to the facts themselves. The following facts were substantially undisputed ; This action was commenced September 6,…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
A previous creditors’ bill seeking to set aside as fraudulent the mortgage and subsequent deed of Leahy's half of the sawmill property was before this court in the case of Collins v. Corwith, 94 Wis. 514. It was there held, in accordance with the decision of the trial court upon evidence less full than that now before us, that the mortgage was fraudulent as to creditors, because withheld from record for years pursuant to agreement of the parties, for the purpose of giving Leahy a false financial standing, and that the deed of December 3, 1890, to Charles R. Corwith was simply one part of an…
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