Michalak v. Nowinski

This is a hard case, and “hard cases make poor law,” unless sympathy be held subject to reason and precedent. By the judgment of the circuit court the appellant is denied recovery of $3,000, her entire estate, invested by her in what she innocently and in utmost good faith considered to be a valid and subsisting note and the mortgage given to secure it. She has our sympathy, but we cannot because of that, overthrow or disregard well-established principles of law in themselves sound and on the whole just in their operation in order to restore to her what she lost through reliance on the…