Small v. Williams

Simmons, Justice.

Williams filed his bill in equity to set aside and cancel a mortgage and note given by him to Small, on the ground that they had been procured from him by duress and fraud. It seems that Williams’s son John, at the time of the transaction, was an agent or drummer for Small, and had lost some eight or nine hundred dollars of Small’s money at Reynolds, Georgia. He telegraphed his loss to Small, and Small employed Shackleford, a detective, to go to Reynolds and find the money or the thief. Shackleford and young Williams returned to Macon in the afternoon of the same day, and…