Court Opinion

ID: 7105593
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:20:35.422108+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:33.481187
License: Public Domain

UPON REHEARING.
Granger, J.
The following from the petition for a rehearing will indicate the extent to which we are asked to reconsider this case: ‘‘Doubtless the failure on our part to present the case to this court as fully as it should have been presented has led the court into a slight error as to its history and present condition; and as the simple affirmance of the decree of the lower court does not afford the plaintiff the relief that, under the facts as this court found them, he is entitled to, we ask for such a modification of the opinion as will give him such relief.”
It must be conceded that the opinion is based on a misapprehension of both the facts and the judgment from which the appeal was taken. The misapprehen*712bíoix of facts is in this: That the opinion proceeds upon the theory that George W. Dee conveyed the land in question to his wife and daughter, “to each separate tracts,” while the actual fact is that he conveyed all the land in question to his wife, who something more than a year afterwards conveyed a part thereof to the daughter; there being no transaction whatever, directly, between the father and the daughter. The misapprehension as to the judgment appealed from is in this: The district court found that the conveyance by George W. Dee to his wife, Phoebe Dee, “was not executed in good faith, but for the purpose of hindering and delaying the creditors of George'W. Dee,” etc., “and it is therefore fraudulent and void, except as to the land thereafter conveyed to Emma J. Dewault, who is a bona fide purchaser for value and without notice.” The amount of land conveyed by Dee to his wife was ninety-three acres; that conveyed by the wife to the daughter was about fifty-five acres. The decree of the district court subjected the land conveyed to Mrs. Dee to the payment of the plaintiff’s judgment, except the part thereof conveyed by her to the daughter, as to which the action was dismissed. The opinion treats the case as though the district court adjudged the entire transaction fraudulent, and affirmed its judgment on that theory. From the judgment entered by the district court both parties appealed.
We are content to abide by the conclusions of the opinion, in so far as it determines the transaction between George W. Dee and his wife. As to the conveyance to Mrs. Dewault, the opinion assumes, with some doubt, it is true, as to the fact, that she paid a consideration for the land, and connects her with the fraudulent purpose of the father, because of his large indebtedness, which must have been known to her. This was upon the theory that she purchased from the father at the time he was disposing of his property. *713Changing the facts so that it appears that she was in no way a party to that transaction, and upwards of a year thereafter purchased a part of the land from the mother, and then assuming, as we think we are justified in doing from the evidence, that she paid a consideration for the land, and we are without sufficient data to support a conclusion that' she purchased with a fraudulent purpose. This change of facts so disconnects her from the transactions of the father as to render the conclusions and presumptions against her, stated in the opinion, unwarranted. The evidence is quite emphatic in support of the innocence of Mrs. Dewault in making the purchase, and, with the facts and the record as they now appear, we unite in the conclusion that the judgment of the district court on both appeals should be affirmed.