Nichols v. Rosenfeld

These are two bills in equity seeking to set aside a mortgage on the ground that the mortgage note was altered fraudulently after delivery. The cases come before us on frivolous bills of exceptions concerning which perhaps it would be enough to say that in this court a charge of fraud is regarded as something more serious than a rhetorical embellishment, that if a man puts his case on that ground he must maintain it on that ground or lose it, and that the plaintiff’s own evidence made it abundantly clear that if there was any fraud it was not on the defendant’s side. But we will deal with the…