Petrovitsky v. Smith

Citations

• 86 Wash. 151
• 149 P. 641
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 885

Syllabus

<p>Fraudulent Conveyances — Husband and Wire — Creditors. Upon an issue as to whether a deed from husband to wife, presumptively fraudulent as to creditors, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5229, was made in good faith, unliquidated claims for damages or an existing right of action upon a contingent claim do not stand upon the same footing as would be given to existing acknowledged or contract debts.</p> <p>Same — Husband and Wire — Evidence—Surriciency. Where a husband had no debts except an unliquidated demand, his deeds to his wife and children of certain property, for the expressed consideration of one dollar, are sufficiently shown to have been made in good faith, where it appears that, at the time the houses were built on the lots, it was agreed that one should be given to the children and one to the wife, that the wife had reared and educated the children largely through her own efforts, and with the children had paid back taxes and street assessments, and renewed a mortgage, and she had put in $500 received as a legacy from a friend, and the husband, iiving separate and apart, had contributed but little to the family support; the only suspicious circumstance being that the deeds were not promptly recorded.</p>