McPherson v. Deconick

Plaintiff receiver brought proceedings to foreclose two mortgages, respectively for $2,500 and $5,000, given by Jennie DeConick on May 16, 1927, to secure promissory notes of like amount, the $2,500 mortgage being on lots 27 and 28, assessor’s plat No. 5, etc., in the city of Pontiac, Michigan, and the $5,000 mortgage on lot 6 of the same subdivision. Albert G-. Griggs and Minnie Griggs, subsequent purchasers, were joined as parties defendant. Mrs. DeConick, appellant, claimed that she never signed the mortgages, and that she had never executed any mortgage at any time. She was a woman of…