Quackenbush v. Mapes

In these actions to foreclose mortgages two defenses are urged: 1. Want of consideration, and, 2, the Statute of Limitations. In support of the first the defendants contend and attempt to prove that the mortgages were executed and delivered with others to the mortgagee, plaintiff’s assignor, by the mortgagor, as instruments of accommodation in order to enable the mortgagor to procure funds looking to the improvement of the mortgaged premises, pursuant to certain agreements between plaintiff’s assignor and *125the mortgagor’s father, a former owner. The burden which the defendants have assumed is…