Webster v. Lowe

WILBUR, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, to subject certain real property conveyed by defendant Lou Choy to his daughter-in-law, Annie S. Lowe, to the lien of a judgment theretofore obtained.by plaintiff against defendant Lou Choy, execution thereon having been returned

nulla bona.

Plaintiff alleges that the property in question was transferred by defendant Lou Choy to said daughter-in-law for the purpose of hindering, delaying, and defrauding creditors. The court found in favor of the plaintiff upon all the allegations of the complaint, finding, among other things, that defendant Lou Choy was insolvent at the time of said transfer; that there was no consideration for the transfer, and that it was made for the purpose of hindering, delaying, and defrauding creditors. These findings are attacked on the ground that they are unsupported by the evidence. Appellant claims that the evidence shows that the consideration.for said transfer was, first, an indebtedness due to his son Toy Kay Lowe for salary at $75 a month as an employee in the farming business for four years, together with money deposited by said son with said father, aggregating $5,000.10,• second, the sum of seven hundred dollars belonging to said daughter-in-law and loaned Lou Choy; and, third, the assumption of an indebtedness secured by deed of trust upon said property to the defendants Garthwaite and Eccleston as trustees for the Oakland Bank of Savings. It is unnecessary to discuss in detail the evidence in the case, for if there is any evidence to support the findings of the trial court those findings are binding on this court. With reference to the indebtedness alleged to be due from the father Lou Choy to the son Toy Kay Lowe, respondent took the position that that indebtedness did not exist; that the relation between father and son was that of partners in the farming business, the son being a silent partner. There was evidence to support this view. Mr. Metson testified that defendant Toy Kay Lowe told him that he was interested with his father in farming, and that he was a silent partner with his father in the farming business. There was evidence with reference to the alleged indebtedness to the daughter-in-law of seven hundred dollars

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which would have justified the court in a finding on that issue in favor of the appellants, but the court was not bound to believe that testimony, and this finding against the appellants on that issue must stand. The same is true with relation to the contention that the assumption of the indebtedness above mentioned constituted a consideration for the transfer.