Blackwood v. Brown

Cooley, Cíi. J:

The action in the court below was brought by Brown to recover from Blackwood the amount of certain securities which he had deposited with Blackwood, and which the latter did not account for. For all but one of these, Black-wood had given a written receipt specifying, that they or the moneys received thereon were to be returned to Brown when two certain mortgages were discharged. The discharge, it appears, was to be obtained for the benefit and protection of one Whittaker, -to whom Brown had conveyed the lands covered by the mortgages, and Blackwood was concerned only as having…