10 A. 701 | N.H. | 1887
At common law a wife cannot be the immediate grantee of her husband, but she may take an estate from him through the intervention of a trustee. In equity, however, it is otherwise, and a direct conveyance from husband to wife will be *354
upheld whenever there is an adequate consideration. Shepard v. Shepard, 7 Johns. Ch. 57; Arundell v. Phipps, 10 Ves. 146, 149; Hunt v. Johnson,
Bill dismissed.
ALLEN, J., did not sit: the others concurred.