Frost v. Hanscome

The plaintiff brought this action to annul two judgments obtained against him by the defendants Wood and Turner, respectively; also to compel the surrender of certain securities pledged by him to the said defendants; also for $30,000 actual damages and additional damages in the sum of $20,000 by way of punishment.

The complaint charges the defendants with fraud in obtaining said judgments and with a conspiracy to abstract from him his money and property by fraud and deceit. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case defendants moved the court for a nonsuit on the ground that there was no…