Wright v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““1. Aaron’s Purchase. The applicable rules of law in a case such as this one, were stated by Mr. Justice Walker in Galbreath v. Cook, 30 Ark. 417 : “ ‘It may be considered as settled in this court, that when a party purchases property and pays for it a fair price, and without knowledge of the failing circumstances of the debtor, or of his intent to defraud his creditors, he will be protected in his purchase. Splawn v. Martin, 17 Ark. 146, 152 , and Christian v. Greenwood, 23 Ark. 258, 266 , 79 Am. Dec. 104 . ****** “ ‘But if the purchaser has notice of the fraud and deals with the vendor, and by so doing aids him in the perpetration of a fraud upon his •creditors, then, even if a full price is paid by him, he can assert no •claim to equitable relief, * * * *- * -x- * * “ ‘Thus we see that in order to protect the purchaser in his property, it is not alone necessary that he should be an innocent purchaser, but that he should also have paid a consideration for the property. These combined protect him; if either is wanting he must fail.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 218 F. Supp. 769 - Bank of Sun Prairie v. Hovig