Peacock Hotel, Inc. v. Shipman

This is an appeal from a final decree of foreclosure of a purchase money mortgage. The bill of complaint was brought by Cordelia Shipman, joined by A. K. Shipman, her husband. The appellants were defendants in the court below and allege error in the refusal of the court to give effect to a claim on their part that the mortgage was obtained by fraud for which they should be permitted to rescind the transaction in which the mortgage was given.

In the answer of the defendant Peacock Hotel, Inc., it was set forth that certain misrepresentations and fraud had been perpetrated by the complainant's…