Chester County Trust Co. v. Pugh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 415, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Chester County, in equity, No. 564, directing re-conveyance in case of Chester County Trust Company, Administrator, c. t. a. of Thomas B. Brown, deceased, v. Edwin A. and Clara E. Pugh. Before Fell, C. J., Bill in equity to compel a conveyance by the defendants to the plaintiffs of certain real estate. Before Hemphill, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 415, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Chester County, in equity, No. 564, directing re-conveyance in case of Chester County Trust Company, Administrator, c. t. a. of Thomas B. Brown, deceased, v. Edwin A. and Clara E. Pugh. Before Fell, C. J., Bill in equity to compel a conveyance by the defendants to the plaintiffs of certain real estate. Before Hemphill, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court made a decree directing a conveyance of the property in question to the administrator. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
Thomas B. Brown was insolvent on April 1, 1911, when he conveyed the property in controversy to Edwin A. Pugh, one of the appellants. The conveyance was for the purpose of defrauding creditors, and this Pugh knew. Brown could not have had it set aside, for neither the law nor equity “will extricate a rogue from his own toils.” But he died insolvent, and what he could not have done in his lifetime his administrator has undertaken to do, for the benefit of his creditors, for as to them the conveyance is admittedly void. What they might have done in Brown’s lifetime,…
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