Bloom v. Moy

Gilfillan, C. J. 1 The action was properly dismissed. "When a judgment creditor, or one claiming through the judgment, brings an action to set aside, as fraudulent as to creditors, a conveyance of real estate by the judgment debtor prior to the judgment, he must show that the debt for which the judgment was rendered existed at the time' of the conveyance. The judgment does not, as against strangers to it, prove the antecedent existence of the debt for which it was rendered. Bruggerman v. Hoerr, 7 Minn. 261 , (337;) Braley v. Byrnes, 20 Minn. 389 , (435;) County of Olmsted v. Barber, 31 Minn. 256 , ( 17 N. W. Rep. 473 ;) Hartman v. Weiland, 36 Minn. 223 , ( 30 N. W. Rep. 815 .) The plaintiff did not prove that the debt existed at the time of the conveyance. He attempted it, perhaps, by showing that a bill of claim of plaintiff against the judgment debtor was presented to the latter prior to the conveyance. Without deciding whether what the latter said at the time would have been evidence to prove, as against this defendant, the existence of the debt, it is enough to say that there was no evidence of the identity of the *398 claim thus presented with the one on which the judgment was recovered. As plaintiff’s' action had to fail for absence of the proof mentioned, it was not material that evidence offered of a fraudulent intent was excluded. The admission of it would not have affected the result. Order affirmed. Vanderburgh, J., took no part in this case.