Hollidge v. Colonial Trust Co.

This is a bill in equity by which the plaintiff seeks to enjoin the foreclosure of a mortgage on the grounds of duress, failure of consideration, threats, illegality under *54the bankruptcy law, and upon many other grounds which need not be further recited in detail.

The plaintiff contends that, after her husband, C. Crawford Hollidge, who operated stores in Boston and New York, had filed a petition in bankruptcy on April 12, 1932, the defendant, which was a creditor of her husband, threatened to prosecute him criminally because of an alleged false balance sheet, and threatened to refuse to agree…