Foreman Trust & Savings Bank v. Cohn

This appeal is brought by the principal defendants to reverse a decree granting the prayer of complainant in a bill to foreclose a mortgage. The defense set up in the answer is that complainant’s testator, Harry Feder, and one Samuel J. Hachtman obtained a trust deed and notes in suit from defendants without giving money or any other consideration therefor by representing to defendants that Feder and Hachtman would use the trust deed for the purpose of exhibiting the same; that it was never to be recorded and that they would destroy it, but that fraudulently, falsely and contrary to their…