Crill v. Trites’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““The conveyances were all made after the debt was incurred to the bank, and only a short time before judgment thereon, some a lew-days, and the farthest less than three months. Wilks was practically- denuded of all his property after they were made. Were ' they fraudulent as to the bank, and, through it, to these appellees ? It must be said in fairness to Wilks that plausible, and in some instances almost convincing, explanations of these transfers are made. It is thoroughly settled in equity jurisprudence that conveyances made to members of the household and near relatives of an embarrassed debtor are looked upon with suspicion and scrutinized with care, and when they are voluntary they are prima facie fraudulent, and, when the embarrassment of the debtor proceeds to financial wreck, they are presumed conclusively ' to be fraudulent as to existing creditors.” Citing cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 110 F. Supp. 898 - United States v. Shoemaker