Naffah v. City Deposit Bank

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

It is unnecessary to recite in detail the extraordinarily complicated facts of which this litigation is the outgrowth. A brief statement will suffice. Plaintiff was the owner of three adjoining tracts of land in the City of Pittsburgh, the title to which was in his wife’s name. In order to secure loans of considerable sums made to him by the City Deposit Bank, four mortgages of $50,000 each were successively executed and delivered to the bank, all of them becoming liens on one of the tracts (tract “A”), the second, third and fourth mortgages on another tract (tract…