Legal Opinion

Hamill & Co. v. Henry

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 23, 1886PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal fronn Madison Gvrouit Court. Action in chancery to subject certain real estate, the title whereof is in a wife, to a judgment against her husband. The plaintiff’s petition was dismissed by the circuit court, after trial upon the merits. They now appeal to this court.

1Opinion of the CourtBkok, J.

I. The petition shows that plaintiff, in 1875, recovered judgment against defendant, W. C. Henry, for $196.67, and $7.70 costs, whereon execution has been issued and returned unsatisfied; that, after tbe indebtedness for *753which the judgment was rendered was contracted, the defendant therein purchased a lot in the city of "Winterset, and caused the title to be conveyed to his wife, a co-defendant in this action, Sarah E. Henry, with the purpose, on thé part of both, to hinder and defeat the collection of plaintiffs’ judgment, and that the lot and the improvements thereon were paid for by the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Benham v. Chamberlain & Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1874

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Sinift v. SiniftSupreme Court of Iowa · 1939
  2. First National Bank v. EichmeierSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
  3. Heacock v. HeacockSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
  4. Brittain v. CrowtherCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1893
  5. Ebersole v. MootSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900

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