Eaton v. Truesdail
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from St. Clair. Foreclosure. Wesley Truesdail appeals. The facts are in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
Eaton having cashed certain paper made by Truesdail to the amount of $24,000 and being his creditor therefor, Truesdail on January 1st, 1857, took up such paper and gave to Eaton instead his four promissory notes on two years time and carrying semiannual interest at the rate of ten per cent, a year. These notes were respectively for $10,000, $7,000, $4,000 and $3,000.
Eight months later and on September 4, 1857, Truesdail gave to Eaton an instrument having the general form of an absolute conveyance of land, but intended as a mortgage and on its face expressing that it was a mortgage for…
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