Koons v. Vauconsant
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Clinton; Stone, J. Bill by Solomon D. Koons and Catherine E. Koonsagainst Justina Vauconsant to obtain the discharge of a. mortgage alleged to have been given under duress. From a decree for complainants, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, C. J.
The complainants pray a decree discharging a mortgage given by them under alleged duress. Their claim is that on January 2, 1900, defendant’s son and his lawyer called at the home of the complainants, and presented a note, which purported to bear the signature of their son, E. S. Koons, and his father, Solomon D. Koons, ■one of the complainants, which note bore date November '27,- 1896. Solomon stated to them that they had made •such a note in 1892, but that he had not made a second note; that his signature was not upon the note presented, nor had he ever authorized any one to sign his name…
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