Ackerman v. Peters

Citations

• 113 La. 156
• 36 So. 923
• 1904 La. LEXIS 632

Syllabus

<p>FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE — EIGHTS OF PARTIES —SI3IÜLATI0N—EVIDENCE—COUNTER LETTER.</p> <p>1. Where parties enter into an agreement to .defraud creditors, neither party can maintain an action upon it or sue to recover the property conveyed. Denton v. Willcox, 2 La. Ann. 60; I-Iood v. Frellsen, 31 La. Ann. 5S0; Dent v. Ferguson, 10 Sup. Ct. 13, 132 U. S. 50, 33 L. Ed. 242.</p> <p>2. Where real estate has been conveyed to or purchased in the name of certain persons, plaintiff, asserting ownership, cannot prove simulation or agency, except by a counter letter, or by answers of defendants to interrogatories on facts and articles; and such answers cannot be contradicted by parol evidence under a charge of fraud, nor can writings insufficient per se to establish title be eked out by the testimony of witnesses. Wright-Blodgett Co. v. Elms, 30 South. 311, 106 La. 150.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>