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154 U.S. 631

24 L. Ed. 705

Docket No. 214.

Clark v. Beecher

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued February 8, 1878.

Decided March 25, 1878.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1878-03-25

<p>APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on Hutchinson v. The Northfield · Phipps v. Sedgwick · Trust Company v. Sedgwick

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Vacated and remanded · 9–0 · Decided 1878-03-25

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Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1968

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¶1APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

¶2A decree setting aside a conveyance by a bankrupt to his wife as fraudulent is sustained; but it is also held that a personal decree against her for rents, issues and profits, and for the use and occupation of the' premises was error.

¶3Mr. Justice Swayne

¶4delivered the opinion of the court.

¶5The bill charges that a fraudulent settlement was made by *632Abraliam Olat'k, the bankrupt, upon the appellant, his wife. The Circuit Court decreed against her and she brought the case here for review.

¶6Mr. Luther R. Marsh and Mr. W. F. Shepherd for appellant.

¶7Mr. Francis N. Bangs for appellee.

¶8Recently several of these cases in their aspects of both fact and law have been very fully considered by this court.

¶9Each controversy must necessarily depend for its termination upon its own facts and circumstances. The rules of law which apply are well settled. In this case nothing could be gained either to the profession or the parties by going in detail over the facts of the law, however elaborately the work was done.

¶10We, therefore, deem it sufficient to say that we are satisfied with the judgment of the Circuit Court upon the main point brought before it for consideration. We think the conveyance complained of was properly condemned as fraudulent, and, therefore, held'to be void.

¶11But it is equally clear that the personal decree against the appellant for the rents, issues and profits, and the use and occupation of the premises, was erroneous.

¶12Upon this subject it is sufficient to refer to the opinion of this court in the oases of Phipps v. Sedgwick, and of Place v. Sedgwick, 95 U. S. 3, and to the opinion in the United States Trust Company v. Sedgwick, 97 U. S. 304, just delivered.

¶13This case will be remanded to the Circuit Court, with directions to modify the decree in conformity to this opinion.

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