People v. Caton
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit. The testimony of Mr. Elwood, referred to in the opinion, was substantially as follows: I am secretary and treasurer of the Wayne county savings bank; I know the respondent ; I saw him in said bank on - March 8, 1873, when he applied to borrow two thousand dollars and proposed to secure it by mortgage on real estate; I told him I would-make the loan provided the title was satisfactory to our board; he said the…
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Exceptions from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit. The testimony of Mr. Elwood, referred to in the opinion, was substantially as follows: I am secretary and treasurer of the Wayne county savings bank; I know the respondent ; I saw him in said bank on - March 8, 1873, when he applied to borrow two thousand dollars and proposed to secure it by mortgage on real estate; I told him I would-make the loan provided the title was satisfactory to our board; he said the property was one hundred and sixty acres, well improved, in Plymouth, and owned by- Robert Blackwood; I told him we would…
1Opinion of the Court
COOI/EY, J.
The prisoner was convicted on an information, charging that he “ did utter and publish as true, a certain false, forged, and counterfeited instrument and writing for the payment of money, in the likeness and similitude of a mortgage” *391of lands. It is objected that the information charges no offense; a mortgage not being among the instruments mentioned in the statute under which it is drawn.
The statute (Comp. L. § 5808) provides that, “Every person who shall utter and publish as true, any false, forged, altered, or counterfeit record, deed, instrument, or other writing mentioned in…
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