Abram Frank & Sons v. Welch
Citations
- 89 Ill. 38
Syllabus
<p>1. Fraudulent conveyance—mortgage to sureties. Where a guardian who liad squandered many thousand dollars of her ward’s money, voluntarily and without any solicitations executed a mortgage on her property to her brothers, who were her sureties on her bond, to indemnify them against loss, who took possession of the personal-property before an execution became a lien thereon, on the trial of the right of property a verdict in favor of the mortgagees was affirmed, there being no other proof of fraud in the transaction.</p> <p>2. Instructions—repeating same principle. Where an instruction is given, it is not error to refuse another which has the same element in it, and is not materially different.</p>
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