Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 1879

Woodman v. Clay

Woodman v. Clay
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · Decided June 5, 1879 · Foster, Smith
59 N.H. 53

Woodman v. Clay

Opinion of the Court

Foster, J.

The good faith of the parties to the conveyance was material upon the question of its validity; and the continued taxation of the property to the husband, with the knowledge and consent of his "wife, was a significant circumstance affecting that question. It was competent for the defendants to seek to rebut an inference of fraud by showing with what intention, under what influences, and in consequence of what representations Mrs. Clay may have done or refrained from doing a significant act, such as permitting the property to be taxed to her husband. 1 Gr. Ev., s. 101; Carter v. Beals, 44 N. H. 408, 412; Graves v. Graves, 45 N. H. 323, 324; Hale v. Taylor, ib. 405, 407; Phenix Ins. Co. v. Clark, 58 N. H. 164.

Hew trial granted.

Smith, J., did not sit: the others concurred.

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