Kopp v. Briggs

— This is an action in equity, for the cancellation of three promissory notes for $25,000 each, bearing date May 31, 1922, signed by appellants, and payable to William Briggs five years after date, together with three mortgages, covering separate and distinct tracts of land in O’Brien County, executed, to secure the payment of said notes. The grounds upon which'cancellation of the above instruments is sought are fraud, undue influence, and duress in their execution, and want of adequate consideration; the last two, — that is, duress and want of consideration, — being the grounds principally…