Legal Opinion

De Rousse v. Williams

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 25, 1917PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from Page District Court. — A. B. Thornell, Judge. The question is whether what is claimed to he property impressed with a spendthrift trust for defendant Frank Williams was rightly subjected to an order in a divorce decree granting plaintiff, who was then the wife of said Williams, alimony.

1Opinion of the Court

/sIlinger, J.

1. Trusts : spenatnritt trusts: wiien subject to to debts of cestui. I. This is an action in . . equity to subject certain funds m the hands of the defendant Henry Read, as trustee, to the payment of a decree in alimony held by appellee against defendant Frank Williams, who, at the time of the rendition of said decree, was her husband.

The essential controversy seems to be oyer whether a trust fund provided for this judgment debtor^was in fact purchased by him or obtained with consideration flowing from him, and whether, as to the recital in the trust agreement that it was upon a…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Strong v. LawrenceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
  2. Moran v. MoranSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909
  3. Arrington v. Arrington.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1900
  4. American Varnish Co. v. ReedIndiana Supreme Court · 1899
  5. Robertson v. SchardSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Samore v. Graham (In Re Graham)United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Iowa · 1982
  2. Bucknam v. BucknamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
  3. Burrage v. BucknamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
  4. Matter of Estate of DodgeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1979
  5. Roorda v. RoordaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1941

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