McIntire v. Pryor
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ' This was a bill in equity fled in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Mary C. Pryor against Edwin A. Mclntire, Martha Mclntire and Hartwell Jenison to obtain the nullification and avoidance, upon the ground of fraud, of a certain foreclosure of real estate in the city of "Washington.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ' This was a bill in equity fled in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Mary C. Pryor against Edwin A. Mclntire, Martha Mclntire and Hartwell Jenison to obtain the nullification and avoidance, upon the ground of fraud, of a certain foreclosure of real estate in the city of "Washington. The facts were in substance that, in May, 1880, the plaintiff Mary C. Pryor, being the owner of parts of lots twenty-one and twenty-two in square numbered 569, conveyed the same by trust deed to Edwin A. Mclntire to secure the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BjsowN
■ Two questions are presented by the record in this case: First, that of fraud in the sale and subsequent manipulation of the property in suit; and, second, that of laches in instituting these proceedings.
1. The question of fraud necessarily involves the examination of a large amount of testimony, and a scrutiny of the successive steps taken, which finally’resulted in the transfer of the property from its original owner, Mary Pryor, to its present owner of record, Martha Mclntire.
The bill avers and the answer admits the execution of a deed of trust May 2, 1880, by the plaintiff and her…
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