Creswell v. Lanahan
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Freedman’s Savings and TrusiTCompany, and John A. J. Creswell and others, its commissioners,-filed, June 26, 1875, two bills in equity in the court-Below against Thomas M. Lanahan and others.
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Appeals from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Freedman’s Savings and TrusiTCompany, and John A. J. Creswell and others, its commissioners,-filed, June 26, 1875, two bills in equity in the court-Below against Thomas M. Lanahan and others. One bill charges that Juan Boyle, on or. about July 31, 1871, being indebted to the company in the sum of $2,500, for which it held his note of that date, payable in one year, executed and delivered to Eaton and Stickney to secure its payment, a deed of trust of the same date (duly recorded), with the usual power of sale, conveying certain…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
Several of the documents referred to by the witnesses in one of the cases have been lost or destroyed, and there is some uncertainty and conflict in the testimony with respect to them and the transactions to which they relate. The discrepancies are not material, and the substantial facts appear with sufficient clearness to enable us satisfactorily to dispose of the controversy. A statement, somewhat condensed, will be sufficient for the purposes of this opinion.
In 1873, the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, the corporation represented by the appellants, found itself seriously embarrassed…
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