White v. Fromme
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph H. White, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of December, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon •the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This was an action to set aside a deed to a piece of property situated on Staten Island, executed by the plaintiff to the defendant Douglas.
It appears that this piece' of property was owned-.in 1902 by one Mary E. Hardy, to whom Joseph H. White, the plaintiff, loaned about $400. Subsequent thereto Mrs. Hardy and her husband gave a deed of said property to White under an understanding that' it was a mortgage, and that upon the repayment of the money advanced White would retransfer the said property to Mrs. Hardy. Subsequent to that transfer, one James L. Goucher brought an action…
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