FRAUDULENT INTENT
BANKRUPT'S TRANSFER OF
PROPERTY.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) * NEW PLYMOUTH, 20th August. An' action by tho District Official Assignee against Martha Knapton, to have certain documents declared void, was completed to-day, after occupying the Supreme Court for the greater part of tho week. The grounds for tho action were that the defendant's husband, prior to his bankruptcy, had transferred- his assets to his wife with fraudulent intent. Mr. Justice MacGrcgor held that fraudulent intent had been proved, and the documents relating to the transf-r were declared void. His Honour characterised Knapton's conduct as fraudulent and his evidence as unreliable, and he held that the 'wife had, to some oxtont, beeu a party to the fraud. An order for £75 costs was made against the defendant in addition to all disbursements and expe- "3s. The defence was that tho property really belonged to the wife in tho first place, and that the transfer was in liquidation of a lawful drbt,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 5
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160FRAUDULENT INTENT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 5
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