Sackner v. Sackner

Complainant, who is daughter-in-law of defendant John Sackner, seeks' to s’et aside a mortgage which he holds against her homestead of $1800 and interest from July 28, 1871. Her claim is in brief that it was obtained from her by the mortgagee to facilitate a settlement with one of her husband’s creditors, and given by her on the representation that her homestead right being but $1500, if she gave a mortgage of the amount in question, there would be nothing on which a creditor could levy. As a matter of fact the conveyance by her husband had been a voluntary one, although it is not clear that…