Hussey v. Castle
Hussey v. Castle
Opinion of the Court
The demurrer to the complaint should have been overruled.
There is no legal presumption that the conveyance of the premises described in the complaint, by J. C. Hussey, the husband of the plaintiff, to her, of February 15th, 1870, was fraudulent as against the party now seeking to sell the same in satisfaction of a judgment against the husband of plaintiff, obtained more than three months after such conveyance, even though the husband had made the same as a voluntary conveyance to, or settlement upon, his wife, the plaintiff; and clearly, under the circumstances attending the conveyance, and the substantial money considerations therefor, alleged in the complaint, no presumption of fraud, as against subsequent judgment creditors of the husband, arises; nor does the presumption arise, from a conveyance of the separate property of the husband to the wife, in consideration of money passing from the wife, which was her separate property, that the property thus conveyed becomes the common property of the husband and wife.
Judgment and order dissolving the injunction reversed, with directions to the Court below to overrule the demurrer to the complaint.
Reither Mr. Justice Wallace nor Mr. Justice Crockett expressed an opinion.
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- Fraudulent Conveyance by Husband to Wife.—There is no legal presumption that a conveyance of land, made by the husband to the wife, is fraudulent as against a judgment creditor of the husband, whose judgment was recovered after the conveyance. Community Property.—There is no legal presumption that land, the separate property of the husband, conveyed by him to the wife in consideration of money, the separate property of the wife, becomes, after such conveyance, the community properly of the husband and wife. Ante-Muptial Contract.—An ante-nuptial verbal contract, which is executed by the parties after marriage', cannot be assailed by the parties thereto, or by third parties, on the ground that it was not in writing.