115 Misc. 229 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1921
The conveyance by the judgment-debtor, Leopold Schaller, to his wife was in fraud of his creditors. So it can also be found that the conveyance from Schaller’s wife to Abramowitz, a brother-in-law, was fraudulent. If there had been no other conveyance the plaintiff could succeed, for while section 1251 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that a judgment is a lien on real property “which the judgment debtor has ” at the time it is docketed, a conveyance made prior to its docket in fraud of the debtor’s creditors is void under section 263 of the Real Property Law and hence the lien of the judgment would attach notwithstanding such conveyance. White’s Bank of Buffalo v. Farthing, 101 N. Y. 344; Smith v. Reid, 134 id. 568, 577; MacDonald v. MacDonald, 42 N. Y. St. Repr. 480.
But before plaintiff’s judgment was docketed Abramowitz had conveyed the property to Newman, who, it is conceded, paid full value for it. Newman’s conveyance is attacked on the ground that he did not take it in good faith. It is conceded that Newman paid moneys on account of the purchase before he had any notice which could possibly be said to charge him with bad faith and so in any event he would have a lien upon the property for the amount so paid. Elterman v. Hyman, 192 N. Y. 113. The facts estab
Judgment for the defendants, but without costs.