Hogan v. Whitcomb

Plaintiff was the owner of three vacant lots in Detroit. She desired toi have houses erected on them. Defendant Edgar B. Whitcomb is a contractor and builder. Plaintiff deeded to defendants the three lots and took back three land contracts in the usual form and an agreement to construct the houses. On November 5, 1921, plaintiff filed her bill in Wayne circuit court, in chancery, alleging that the contracts had been procured by fraud, that the work of constructing the buildings had been improperly done, that the transaction should be treated as a mortgage and could! only be foreclosed as a…