Wartemberg v. Spiegel

The purpose of this suit is to have a mortgage by complainant to defendant decreed to be given up and cancelled, on the ground that it was obtained by fraud. The mortgage bears date November 20, 1872, and it appears that for a short time previous to this the defendant and Charles Wartemberg had been in partnership in a grocery and provision store, and defendant had just sold out to Charles his interest. Complainant, according to her account, was ignorant of the negotiations between Charles and the defendant, and she alleges that the latter came to her and obtained the mortgage by claiming to…