Legal Opinion
Mackin v. Shannon
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas
Decided November 25, 1908PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The plaintiff has filed his bill to foreclose a mortgage executed to him by the defendant William T. Shannon to secure the payment of a note for the sum of $10,000, due six months after date. The other defendants are made parties as claiming some rights in the mortgaged property. The mortgagor, the defendant William T. Shannon, admits the execution of the note and mortgage sued on, but sets up that the same were executed in settlement of a gambling debt, and for this reason are null and void. The allegations in the answer are:
“That on the 24th day of February, 1905, he…
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