Mercantile Exchange Bank v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division B. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. STATEMENT. On the 1st day of September, 1903, Aitken Son & Company filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Duval County, Florida, against Ruth E. MacDonald, Malcolm G. MacDonald, her husband, and the Mercantile Exchange Bank, a corporation -organized under the laws of Florida and having its place of business in the City of Jacksonville, wherein complainants allege that they are engaged in…
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This case was decided by Division B. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. STATEMENT. On the 1st day of September, 1903, Aitken Son & Company filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Duval County, Florida, against Ruth E. MacDonald, Malcolm G. MacDonald, her husband, and the Mercantile Exchange Bank, a corporation -organized under the laws of Florida and having its place of business in the City of Jacksonville, wherein complainants allege that they are engaged in business in the City of New York and have been for many years last past, and that they sold to the defendant, Ruth E.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hocker, J.,
(after stating the facts.) There are ten assignments of error, the first based on the interlocutory order of the Chancellor enjoining The Mercantile Exchange Bank from foreclosing its mortgage against the property of Ruth E. MacDonald, and the remainder based on the final decree, and upon the several features of that decree. The contention made here by the appellees to support the decree both orally and in their briefs, may be divided into two prospositions: First, that the mortgage of the bank was not given upon good consideration, was not bona fide and was void, and, second, that…
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