Bertrand v. Elder
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski GJumcery Cov/rt. Hon. H. F. Fairchild, Chancellor. It seems to us that the statute, itself, settles the question, that a voluntary conveyance in favor of a wife cannot be held good against a subsisting debt.
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Appeal from Pulaski GJumcery Cov/rt. Hon. H. F. Fairchild, Chancellor. It seems to us that the statute, itself, settles the question, that a voluntary conveyance in favor of a wife cannot be held good against a subsisting debt. Gould’s Pig., 765, 767. What Bender desired to do — to secure these lots against the .pressure of creditors — to provide a home for himself and family that could not be touched or molested by Creditors — was precisely what the law did not allow him to do. And confessedly the conveyance- to the wife having been made with that intent; it became in the language of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice CohptoN
On the 23d of November, 1848, George O. Watkins, who was then the owner of lots 8 and 9 in block 35, of the city of Little Bock, sold them to David Bender for $2500 00, and executed to him a bond for title. The purchase money having been paid, Watkins and wife, by deed dated the 15th of April, 1852, conveyed the lots to Mrs. Charlotte Bender, the wife of David Bender. The deed was thus made at the request of the husband, and though it recites the payment of the purchase money as having been made by Mrs. Bender, the testimony abundantly shows that it was in fact paid by the husband, and that…
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