Joyce v. Perry
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Garroll District Gourt. — Hon. S. 31. Elwood, Judge. The defendants W. 31. Harrison and Isabella A. Harrison are husband and wife. The latter was the owner of eighty acres of land in Carroll county, Iowa, which for a number of years was occupied by herself and her husband. January 31, 1896, they conveyed this land by warranty deed to one Kirie L. Williams. On the first day of August 1896, Williams conveyed the same land by quitclaim deed to George W. Bowen.
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Appeal from Garroll District Gourt. — Hon. S. 31. Elwood, Judge. The defendants W. 31. Harrison and Isabella A. Harrison are husband and wife. The latter was the owner of eighty acres of land in Carroll county, Iowa, which for a number of years was occupied by herself and her husband. January 31, 1896, they conveyed this land by warranty deed to one Kirie L. Williams. On the first day of August 1896, Williams conveyed the same land by quitclaim deed to George W. Bowen. August 10 and 11, 1896, Isabella A. Harrison and her husband also executed a quitclaim deed of the same land to George W.…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwin, J.
1 That the conveyance of this land from Isabella A. and W. M. Harrison to Kirk L. Williams was fraudulent cannot be questioned. The defendant George W. Bowen knew this fact when he took the title, and the defendant J. A. F. Brunnier successfully prosecuted an action to set aside the conveyance to Williams on the ground of fraud, so that he had full notice of the character of that transaction. No claim can therefore be made that any of Perry’s grantors were without actual knowledge of the fraud in the conveyance to Williams. The judgment which the plaintiff held against W. M. and Isabella A'.…
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