{ "id": 3231057, "name": "The First National Bank of Hays City v. Ellen Vest et al.", "name_abbreviation": "First National Bank of Hays City v. Vest", "decision_date": "1900-10-19", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "389", "last_page": "391", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "187 Ill. 389" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill.", "id": 8772, "name": "Illinois Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "144 Ill. 125", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 3080252 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/144/0125-01" ] }, { "cite": "123 Ill. 403", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 2922896 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/123/0403-01" ] }, { "cite": "152 Ill. 456", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 835342 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/152/0456-01" ] }, { "cite": "160 Ill. 443", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 3128085 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/160/0443-01" ] }, { "cite": "153 Ill. 490", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 3027113 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/153/0490-01" ] }, { "cite": "155 Ill. 72", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 839768 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/155/0072-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 339, "char_count": 5815, "ocr_confidence": 0.6, "pagerank": { "raw": 3.1511999494205184e-07, "percentile": 0.862676935991249 }, "sha256": "9604beb56c7e5ad841280cc25504a3b3911f6f009f2cbf750923c1103a400ec0", "simhash": "1:edf3e1d5df5da81e", "word_count": 1038 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:39:43.135598+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "The First National Bank of Hays City v. Ellen Vest et al." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Justice Magruder\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThis is a bill, filed on September 14, 1898, in the circuit court of Champaign county by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error, alleging the recovery by the plaintiff in error at the March term, 1897, of the court, of a judgment against the defendant in error S. L. Vest for the sum of $355.50 together with $5.30 costs of suit, and that, such judgment remaining unsatisfied on May 26,1897, an execution was sued out on that day, and after-wards, on July 20,1897, returned by the sheriff unsatisfied. The return as endorsed on the execution was: \u201cThe within execution returned unsatisfied, no property found in my county on which to levy, this 20th day of July, 1897.\u201d The bill then alleges that, after the debt for which the judgment was recovered had accrued, Vest was the owner in fee simple of two sub-lots in a certain addition to the city of Urbana, and that, thereafter on February 24,1896, he conveyed said sub-lots to his wife, Ellen Vest. The bill charges that there was no consideration for this conveyance, and that it was made for the purpose of shielding said property from sale on execution upon any judgment the plaintiff in error might thereafter recover against S. L. Vest. The prayer of the bill is, that the deed, alleged to have been so fraudulently made by S. L. Vest to his wife, Ellen Vest, be declared null and void against the plaintiff in error, and that the lands thereby transferred be subjected to the execution of the plaintiff in error.\nFrom the foregoing statement of the facts it appears, that this is a bill, filed by a judgment .creditor for the purpose of setting aside a conveyance alleged to have been made by the judgment debtor for the fraudulent purpose of defeating the enforcement of the judgment. Where such a bill is filed, no freehold is involved, and the decree of the court should go to the Appellate Court for review and not to this court. Hence, the point made by the defendants in error, that this court has no jurisdiction, and that the writ of error should be dismissed, is well taken. In Moshier v. Reynolds, 155 Ill. 72, we said: \u201cA bill filed in aid of an execution, or as a creditor\u2019s bill, seeking to set aside an alleged fraudulent conveyance made by a judgment debtor and subject the lands to sale for the-payment of the judgment indebtedness, does not involve a freehold.\u201d (See, also, Hupp v. Hupp, 153 Ill. 490; Blackman v. Preston Bros. 119 id. 240).\nIt is contended by the plaintiff in error that a homestead estate is involved here, and that, inasmuch as the estate of homestead is a freehold, this court should entertain jurisdiction of the case. An estate of homestead is not involved in this litigation. The only material question before the court below was, whether the conveyance, made by the judgment debtor, S. L. Vest, to his wife, was made in fraud of the rights of creditors and subject to be set aside upon that ground. The property in question consisted of a lot with a building upon it, the lower part of which was used as an office or store, and in the upper part of which were some sleeping rooms. There is some evidence to the effect that, in May, 1898, Vest and his wife moved into some of these upper rooms and occupied them. But this occupation occurred more than a year after the lien of the judgment is alleged to have attached. After a judgment has become a lien upon land, the judgment debtor cannot acquire a homestead as against the judgment. (Willard v. Masterson, 160 Ill. 443; Zander v. Scott, 165 id. 51).\nIn addition to this, there was nothing in the pleadings, either the bill or answer, upon the subject of homestead. No claim of homestead was set up in the answer. To claim a homestead as against a creditor\u2019s bill, the right must be set up in the answer. (Lofquist v. Errickson, 152 Ill. 456).\nCounsel for the plaintiff in error refer, in support of their contention that the estate of homestead is involved, to the cases of Snell v. Snell, 123 Ill. 403, and Stodalka v. Novotny, 144 Ill. 125. But these cases have no application to such a state of facts as exists in the case at bar. In the Snell case, a bill was filed expressly c] aiming an estate of homestead in certain premises, and praying that the same be set off and assigned to the complainant. In the Stodallca case, a bill was filed to reform a contract for the sale of a homestead by the insertion therein of a release of that right and an acknowledgment, and then to enforce a specific performance .of the contract; and it was there held that a court of equity had no power so to reform a contract.\nAn order will be entered dismissing the writ of error; but leave is given to the plaintiff in error to withdraw the record, abstracts and briefs.\nWr\u00fc diimissed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Justice Magruder" } ], "attorneys": [ "White & Dobbins, for plaintiff in error.", "Lewis & Lewis, and Thomas J. Smith, for defendants in error." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "The First National Bank of Hays City v. Ellen Vest et al.\nOpinion filed October 19, 1900.\n1. Appeals and errors\u2014appeal shouldbe taken to Appellate Court in creditor's bill proceeding. An appeal from a decree in a proceeding by a judgment creditor to have set aside a conveyance alleged to have been made by the judgment debtor for the fraudulent purpose of defeating the enforcement of the judgment, lies to the Appellate Court, since no freehold is involved.\n2. Homestead\u2014homestead does not attach after judgment. A judgment debtor cannot acquire a homestead as against the judgment, after the judgment has become a lien upon the property.\n3. Same\u2014as against creditor's bill, homestead must be claimed by answer. In order to claim a homestead as against a creditor\u2019s bill the right must be set up in the answer.\nWrit of Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding.\nWhite & Dobbins, for plaintiff in error.\nLewis & Lewis, and Thomas J. Smith, for defendants in error." }, "file_name": "0389-01", "first_page_order": 389, "last_page_order": 391 }