Blum v. Hoffkins

Rich, J.:

The learned trial court has found that while the bond and mortgage in suit bear defendant’s true signature, they were procured through the trick and device of her husband, and that at the time they were signed she neither knew the contents nor purport of the papers and did not intend to sign them as and for her bond and mortgage, but believed she was witnessing other papers The evidence sustains these findings, but the Special Term has found for plaintiff and decreed foreclosure of the mortgage. The question *750presented for our determination is upon whom shall the loss fall by reason…