John Schweyer & Co. v. Mellon
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Chippewa; Fead, J. Bill by John Schweyer & Company against Joseph T. Mellon and another to foreclose a mortgage. Defendants filed an answer in the nature of a cross-bill asking for the cancellation of the mortgage as fraudulent. From a decree dismissing both bill and cross-bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
Plaintiff is an Illinois corporation engaged in the wholesale liquor business at Chicago. It *592seeks by this proceeding the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by the defendants on the 20th day of November, 1912, to one Albert E. Hagen, for the sum of $1,250, on lands situated in Chippewa county, and which mortgage it alleges was assigned to it early in December of the same year. The defendants answer the bill, and allege in detail fraud on the part of Hagen in procuring the mortgage in question, and deny its validity; also, deny its assignment to plaintiff, and deny that plaintiff is a holder…
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