PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTH CARE SYS. v. WOOKEY

Nos. 20172, 20173.

583 N.W.2d 405 (1998)

1998 SD 99

PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, INC., Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Dwight R. WOOKEY, Defendant and Appellant, and Harold K. Wookey and Merna L. Wookey, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided August 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Linngren of Green, Schulz, Roby, Oviatt, Cummings & Linngren, Watertown, for plaintiff and appellee.

Curt R. Ewinger of Rice and Ewinger, Aberdeen, for defendants and appellants.


KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] After incurring a large hospital bill, the patient and his wife deeded all their real estate to their adult son. The Hospital sought to void the transfer as fraudulent, but despite the presence of several "badges of fraud," the circuit court found in favor of the patient, as the conveyance was in exchange for reasonably equivalent value. Although this finding was not clearly erroneous, we reverse the decision because a separate statute...

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