Fisher v. Ward

Citations

• 104 Wash. 589
• 177 P. 682
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 529

Syllabus

<p>Fraudulent Conveyances *(92, 97) — Transaction Between Relatives — Preference—Consideration—Evidence—Sufficiency. Transfers by a failing debtor of all his available resources to his daughter in consideration of a previous promise to pay her $25 a month as housekeeper during the previous five years, are shown to be fraudulent as to creditors, where the proof of the agreement was not satisfactory and it appears that the property was worth considerably more than his daughter’s claim, and he continued to exercise dominion over it, negotiating a mortgage upon it and offering part of it to a creditor in settlement of the indebtedness; since preference to one in such relation requires satisfactory proof of good faith and consideration, subject to the closest scrutiny.</p>