Schram v. Burt

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court denying the appellant either a mortgage or equitable lien on real estate owned by the appellee. The facts out of which the controversy arises are substantially as follows:

On July 26, 1926, George W. Burt and the appellee, Harriet S. Burt, husband and wife, acquired a vacant lot in Detroit, Michigan, by warranty deed and became the owners as tenants by the entirety. They contracted for the lot in the spring of 1926 and employed Frank Elwell to build a house on it, who commenced its construction in May, 1926, on the…