In re Blake

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

The bankrupt gave a note, accompanied by certain deeds, to one Ogden, in return for a loan of $17,000. The deeds were delivered under an agreement that if the loan should not be pf)id, with interest, on the 15th of May, 1909, Ogden should have, between May 15th and June 1st, an option to cancel said notes and purchase said lands. The deeds in question were recorded as deeds upon the 27th day of March, 1909, and again, with the agreement, as mortgages upon the 28th day of May, 1909; the record as deeds having been made inasmuch as it had become apparent that the…