Baddeley v. Patterson

Bicknell, C. C.

Patterson paid for Baddeley $50, and signed a note for him as surety, payable to Hamrick, for $200, and Baddeley verbally agreed to give him a mortgage, with a condition in it that if the note should not be paid, or if Baddeley should undertake to sell or remove the property, then Patterson might take possession of the property as his own; it was all personal property, chiefly household furniture. Baddeley would not give the mortgage, and refused to pay the note, and Patterson had to pay it, and then Baddeley would neither reimburse Patterson nor give him the mortgage.…