Downing v. Gault

Citations

• 8 Pa. Super. 52
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 11

Syllabus

<p>Fraud — Sale by insolvent vendor — Future maintenance.</p> <p>Those who are indebted cannot put their property out of their hands and avoid their creditors in order to provide future maintenance for themselves. ' ■</p> <p>A woman being indebted and insolvent sold certain furniture worth a much larger sum to her daughter in consideration of $100 and future support. The sheriff sold the property on an execution against the mother. Held, in a suit by the daughter against the sheriff, that the above facts being undisputed, the defendant was entitled to binding instructions.</p>