Seeders v. Allen

Citations

• 98 Ill. 468
• 1881 Ill. LEXIS 277

Syllabus

<p>Fraudulent conveyance—investing equitable owner with legal title is not fraudulent. Where a wife’s land, which she took by inheritance, is, on a partition made by her husband and the other tenant in common, conveyed by the latter to both husband and wife, and the latter has said or done nothing to induce others to trust her husband, upon the belief of his ownership of the same, the conversion of the wife’s equitable title to the land into a legal title, before any liens attached in favor of her husband’s creditors, is not fraudulent as to creditors. Her intention to get the legal title in advance of creditors who were seeking it, or might seek it, was not a fraudulent intent, but was a lawful one.</p>