Van Dellen v. Van Dellen

George Yan Dellen was engaged in selling automobiles, and forged and sold chattel mortgages to defendant Fidelity Corporation. Officers of the corporation discovered the fraud, estimated loss thereby at $8,000, and immediately pressed the forger to make settlement. George Yan Dellen, on January 6, 1931, executed a chattel mortgage to the Fidelity Corporation, covering the stock of goods in a store owned by him at Hoytville; gave a real estate mortgage to the Fidelity Corporation, covering his Hoytville real estate; gave a warranty deed, in which he was joined by his wife, to Albert P.…