Lord v. Lindsay

Boardman, J.:

This was an action brought to foreclose a mortgage given by husband and wife upon property owned by tbe wife, to secure tbe precedent debt of the husband and to stop proceedings to enforce the collection of the judgment held against tbe husband. The husband did not defend. The wife defended, and in her answer alleges “that the notes and mortgage mentioned in the complaint were obtained from this defendant by the agent of the plaintiff (and others in collusion with him) by duress of the defendant, in threatening to throw the defendant and her furniture out upon the street, and by…