Crosby v. Clem

This is a suit in equity* to restrain the foreclosure

of a mortgage of personal property. The bill alleges that the *194plaintiff executed a mortgage of personal property to the defendant, and that it was assigned afterwards to the wife of the plaintiff. A judge of the Superior Court found as facts that in May, 1908, the wife of the plaintiff, at her husband’s request, paid $2,000 from her private property as the purchase price for the conveyance to the plaintiff of a stock of goods. Later, trouble having arisen between the two and the wife having filed a libel for divorce, an agreement was made…