Dodds v. Purdy

Plaintiff by bill in equity seeks cancellation of a mortgage and of a sheriff’s deed given on foreclosure of such mortgage. The circuit judge after a hearing on the merits dismissed the bill of complaint. Plaintiff has appealed.

The mortgage covered a 40-acre farm in Troy township, Oakland county, which farm at the time the mortgage was given (January 30, 1930) was occupied as a homestead by the mortgagor, William John Dodds, and his wife, Sarah Dodds. On that date title was in William John Dodds; but on the following day by conveyance to a third party and reconveyance to Mr. and Mrs. Dodds…