Exchange Bank v. H. B. Claflin Co.

Cobb, Justice.

Mrs. Rewman, a merchant, gave mortgages to five of her creditors, each on a stock of goods owned by her. These mortgage creditors foreclosed their mortgages, and were proceeding to sell the stock of goods when H. B. Claflin Company and others filed their equitable petition against her and the mortgage creditors, in which it is alleged that they are creditors, and that she obtained credit from them under such circumstances that, on account of the fraud perpetrated upon them, the title to the goods which they had sold never passed to her, but that the title is still in them. They…