Castle v. . Noyes

The only question essential to be considered on this appeal is that respecting the estoppel by way of the Ronk judgment. In determining this question it will not be necessary to discuss the competency of the parol proof given on the trial to show the grounds upon which the justice rendered that judgment, or, in other words, that the justice did not, in fact, pass upon the question of the bona fides of the mortgage, as to the creditors of the mortgagor. Admitting that proof as competent, it did not, in my judgment, affect the operation of the judgment as an estoppel. There were two questions…