Nowsky v. Siedlecki
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to set aside a fraudulent conveyance, and for damages, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County. The court (Wolfe, J.) ordered the issues of fact to be tried by the jury. Certain interrogatories were submitted to them and answered, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff. The complaint stated this case: The defendant Andrew J. Siedlecki, on July 6th, 1906, secured a loan of $800 from the plaintiff by false representations.
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Action to set aside a fraudulent conveyance, and for damages, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County. The court (Wolfe, J.) ordered the issues of fact to be tried by the jury. Certain interrogatories were submitted to them and answered, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff. The complaint stated this case: The defendant Andrew J. Siedlecki, on July 6th, 1906, secured a loan of $800 from the plaintiff by false representations. In October, 1906, the plaintiff sued him for such false representations, and in May, 1907, recovered a judgment for $918.59 damages, which remains…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
A judgment creditor who complains that his debtor has transferred all his property, when insolvent, to his wife, by a voluntary and fraudulent conveyance, and that she participated in the fraud, has, among other remedies, one at law for compensation in damages against both the wrong-doers; and one in equity to have the fraudulent conveyance set aside. The plaintiff sought both these remedies, and had a right to seek both, in a single action. General Statutes, §§ 532, 721.
He had accordingly a right to claim that the case should be entered on the docket as a jury case. General Statutes, § 720.
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