Tuckey v. Lovell

Citations

• 8 Idaho 731
• 71 P. 122
• 1902 Ida. LEXIS 71

Syllabus

<p>Debtor and Creditor — Voluntary Gift. — The law requires that debtors should be just before they are generous, and under this rule a debtor will not be permitted to donate the services and earnings of teams belonging to him to his infant son to avoid payment of his debts to a creditor for whom said infant son, with such teams, performs labor.</p> <p>Services of Minor — Laborer’s Lien — Creditors.—A minor, who, with teams belonging to his father, plows the lands of a creditor of his said father, for the purpose of cultivating a crop thereon, may be entitled to a lien for his own personal services, if personally entitled thereto, but is not entitled to a lien for the services of said teams.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>