Brown v. Lynch
New York Court of Chancery
Appeal from the Equity Court of the Second Circuit. The facts in the case, and the reasons for the decree in the court below, are stated in the following opinion delivered by Judge Emott in the Equity Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion :—The plaintiffs were owners of a farm in Cornwall, in Orange county, which, in 1811, by a fraud upon them, was mortgaged by their brother, Nathaniel Lynch, to John C. Romeyn, of New-York. The mortgage was foreclosed in Chancery, and the lands advertised by a master for sale, on the 29th day of May, 1824. They were sold to the defendant on the 8th day of June, for $1,540. The farm was, in fact, worth $2,500, and was sold by the defendant to Benjamin Colter, in March, 1825, for $2,300. Thus far, the parties agree as to the facts; but in what follows, they are at issue: the defendant…
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