Hofford v. Roth

Opinion by

Me. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

This was a bill for a decree striking off the satisfaction of a mortgage and restitution of $2,500 paid in the purported settlement of a claim.

There are two questions: whether the evidence supports a finding that a purchase money mortgage, satisfied of record, had not been paid and whether a $2,500 payment in cash made by the plaintiff to defendant had been procured through fraud and duress.

Plaintiff, Cora L. Hofford, a resident of the Borough of Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, was the owner of real estate in Carbon County. On June 17, 1943, she…