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- Title: Haskins v. Certified Escrow & Mortgage Co.
- Author : District Court of Appeal of California
- Release Date : January 28, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
Description
In October, 1944, Certified Escrow and Mortgage Company, a corporation, acquired title to Lot 1, Block E, of Tract 5956, as per map recorded in Book 83, page 55 of Maps, records of Los Angeles County. In August, 1945, Olivia N. Haskins brought suit against the corporation alleging that the property had been purchased with the funds of plaintiff and J. E. Haskins; that J. E. Haskins had assigned all his interest in the property to plaintiff, and seeking a decree impressing a trust upon the property in favor of the plaintiff. Certain other relief was sought against individual defendants who filed their answer. The corporation did not defend. In September, 1945, Edwin S. Conway brought suit against the corporation and on October 9, 1945, recovered a judgment in the amount of $2,368.61, upon which he collected, through execution sales, all but $850. On February 3, 1947, Conway purchased the real property at execution sale under his judgment, for the sum of $100, leaving a deficiency of $750. On July 14, 1947, the property was conveyed by the Escrow Company to Olivia N. Haskins. The action brought by Miss Haskins not having been tried, Conway filed a complaint in intervention in February, 1948. He alleged that he had an unsatisfied judgment against the corporation, that the corporation had conveyed the property to Olivia N. Haskins, with the purpose on the part of the grantor and grantee to hinder, delay and defraud creditors of the corporation, and that at the time of the conveyance the corporation was insolvent. It was not alleged that the conveyance was made without consideration. The answer of the corporation and others to the complaint in intervention denied the charges of fraud, alleged that Conway had purchased the property at execution sale for $108, that Olivia N. Haskins had acquired from the corporation a right of redemption and had redeemed the property by the payment to Conway through the sheriff of $108 which Conway still retained. The court found that the