Knudson
Knudson v. Adams
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Jennings, J.
This action was instituted by plaintiff, a judgment creditor of the defendant H. Z. Adams, for the purpose of securing a decree setting aside certain conveyances of real property made by the aforesaid defendant to the defendant Carrie A. Love, which were alleged to be fraudulent as to plaintiff. Upon the conclusion of the trial of the action judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants. Prom the judgment thus rendered plaintiff has appealed.
The record shows that the following facts were developed by the evidence which was produced during the trial: The defendants H. Z. Adams and Carrie A. Love are brother and sister and the former has for many years made his home with the latter. The father of these two defendants died intestate in 1891. His estate was probated in the Superior Court of Orange County. During the course of administration certain real property of the estate was sold to the defendant Carrie A. Love for the sum of $9,000 and said defendant received a deed therefor from the administrator of the estate. On July 25, 1923, Carrie A. Love executed three separate grant deeds whereby she conveyed five-sixths of the property which she had purchased from her father’s…