Baker v. Naglee
Baker v. Naglee
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill was filed by the appellant, Baker, against John Naglee, The Moromsco Land Improvement, Manufacturing and
The ground of the injunction was that Naglee was indebted to Baker in an open account, amounting to about $1,000, and, being so indebted, that the said Naglee had conveyed his farm in the county of Prince William, variously valued at from $20,000 to $40,000, and assessed at $15,483, to the said The Moromsco Land Improvement, Manufacturing and Business Company, at the nominal price of $80,000, which was paid for by the issue to Naglee of 3,600 shares of stock at $25 per share, and the said The Moromsco Land Improvement, Manufacturing and Business Company had conveyed its property in trust to secure an issue of $40,000 of its bonds, the plaintiff alleging that the object of the said Naglee was to avoid the payment of the debt to him and thus defraud him.
This claim is based upon the charge that Naglee was the said Moromsco Land Improvement, Manufacturing and Business Company,and the said company was Naglee; in other words,that Naglee owned all the property of the company, and that the incorporation of the company was merely a device by Naglee to hinder, delay and defraud his creditors. If the company
Degree affirmed.
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- Fraudulent Conveyances—Consideration—Stock—Case at bar.— Grantor conveyed land in exchange for stock to an incorporated company, which conveyed it to secure bonds issued by it. Grantor’s creditor filed his bill, alleging tthat grantor and the company were one and the same, and that the conveyance was a contrivance to hinder, delay, and defraud his creditors, prayed that the conveyance be annulled and the issue and sale of the bonds be enjoined— Held : The conveyance was valid. The stock was a valuable consideration. There was no proof of fraud.