Fargo v. Goodspeed

Citations

• 87 Ill. 290

Syllabus

<p>Contract—procured by fraud and collusion. Where a husband, by fraud, collusion and artifice on his part, and others assisting him, procured a conveyance of his wife’s property to one of his confederates, and the execution of an agreement in relation thereto, and for other purposes, with the intention of discarding her and possessing himself of her property, it was held, that a court of equity would not assist him in enforcing the agreement, or obviating a defect in Ms title caused by the mutilation of the deed he had thus obtained.</p>