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119 Mich. 7

Richards v. McCormick

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided December 13, 1898

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1898-12-13

, presiding. Judgment creditor’s bill by Frank E. Richards against James C. McCormick, Hugh McCormick, Jr., and Hugh McCormick, Sr. From a decree dismissing the bill as to Hugh McCormick, Sr., complainant appeals. This is 'a suit in equity by Frank E.. Richards, a judgment creditor, against James C. McCormick and others, to reach property claimed to have been fraudulently transferred.

Reversed · Decided 1898-12-13

Grant, C. J.

¶1(after stating the facts). Upon the hearing, complainant introduced the testimony of defendant Hugh McCormick, Sr., taken in another case, in December, 1895, in which it is claimed he testified that this $500 was a gift to his son, and not a loan, and rested. The defendant was then sworn in his own behalf, and testified that the $500 was loaned. The question presented is one entirely of fact, viz., whether the court should have found that the defendant gave his son the money. His former testimony cannot be well construed to mean anything else than that he desired to help his son start in business, and made a gift to him of this $500 for that purpose. The stock to this amount was therefore subject to the claims of creditors.

¶2Decree reversed, with costs of both courts, and decree rendered for complainant.

The other Justices concurred.
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