Wright v. Smith

The Vice-Chancellor.

The bill in this cause prays relief against a mortgage, on the ground that it was fraudulently procured. The complainant, Benjamin H. Wright, is a resident of Rome, in the state of Yew York, and the defendant, James Smith, of Yew-ton, in this state. Wright, being the owner of a certain interest in some mineral lands in the county of Sussex, and desirous of purchasing the fee of the lands, (the same being about forty acres belonging to one Ackerson,) and wishing also to buy an adjoining tract called the Howell farm, made known his wishes in 1869 to the defendant, who was…