Libby v. Long

The defendant at one time owned certain property consisting of a tenement house on which a mortgage already existed. He gave a second mortgage to one Knudsen, and later purchased it and had it transferred to one Benjamin Freedman, the father-in-law of the defendant. Prior to the assignment to Freedman, Knudsen had foreclosed the mortgage.

Thereafterwar'd, the plaintiff acquired title to the equity. Upon offering to redeem, Freedman, or the defendant claiming to act as agent of Freedman, demanded of the plaintiff for the mortgage debt an amount which included certain sums paid out by Freedman…