Wynne v. Fries

WEST, District Judge.

This was an action on promissory notes given for lands in Mssissippi. Steiner and Ach, who will be termed defendants, set up as defenses that the lands were purchased and notes executed by a certain development company by its sole trustee, constituting a common-law trust, and not by or for them; and that the entire transaction was void for fraud practiced upon the vendee by the vendor, to which defenses reply was filed. Trial by jury was waived in writing, the ease was heard by the court, and at the conclusion of all the evidence the defendants moved for judgment in their…