Wakefield v. Greenway

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court in favor of the defendants in an action seeking to have a certain deed, absolute in form, declared to be a mortgage in fact.

The assignments of error raise only one question : Was the evidence sufficient to establish the fact that the deed was in reality a mortgage. The salient parts of the evidence are briefly as follows:

The appellant, a lawyer by profession, but engaged in the real estate business in Seattle, formulated a plan whereby the owner of several residence properties in that city could buy the Carolina Courts which were then for…