Wooldridge v. Gage

Citations

• 68 Ill. 157

Syllabus

<p>1. Fraudulent conveyance—only void as to prior creditors. A conveyance of a debtor’s property is void only as to prior creditors, when made to defraud them, and not as to subsequent creditors.</p> <p>2. Where the proof showed the employment of attorneys, in the winter of 1854-5, to defend a suit to be commenced in the next spring, and the party so employing, on Feb. 3,1855, gave his deed of trust to other parties, which was claimed to be fraudulent as to creditors, it was held, on bill in chancery to set aside the fraudulent conveyance, and a purchase thereunder, by a purchaser under a judgment in favor of the attorneys, that the proof did not satisfactorily show the existence of the attorneys’ claim at the date of the trust deed.</p>