Wood v. Depew

Advised by a man of sense to not discharge a mortgage for $2,710 he held upon the farm of defendants and take their word to furnish him with a home and support for life, plaintiff exercised his own senile judgment and discharged the mortgage, and, after a time, not receiving the home and support promised, invoked the aid of the court of equity to obtain restoration of the mortgage in an amount found to be just. Plaintiff, by decree in the circuit court, had restoration of the mortgage to the amount of $1,989.93. The case is here by defendants’ appeal.

Defendants have not for some time…