Cole v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘. . . The sole purpose and object of the statute on the subject of fraudulent conveyances are to secure the appropriation of the debtor’s property to the payment of his debts— not all of his debts, however, but such part thereof as he can and prefers to pay; else all preferences would be prohibited; and when, therefor, the result of any given conveyance is to appropriate the property conveyed, at a fair valuation, to the payment of an honest indebtedness, or a part thereof, it cannot fall within the condemnation of the statute, for, as said above, what the law directly sanctions it will not by indirection condemn. So long as the entire property conveyed is subjected to the payment of some honest debt of the grantor, the conveyance is honest and lawful; so long as nothing is taken from the creditors of the grantor, the transaction cannot be fraudulent against them; and, so long as the property is subject to the payment of an honest debt, it cannot be said to be withdrawn from the creditor of the grantor. .' . .’ “See, also: Wall v. Breedy, 161 Mo. 625, 642 , 61 S.W. 864, 866 ; Citizens’ Bank of Hayti v. McElvain, 280 Mo. 505 , 219 S.W. 75 ; Burston v. Fennewald, 222 Mo.App. 128 , 2 S.W.2d 824, 828 ; Friedel v. Bailey, 329 Mo. 22 , 44 S.W.2d 9, 15 ; Allison v. Mildred (Mo.), 307 S.W.2d 447, 456 .””

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