May v. Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Co.

This suit is to enjoin the sale of real estate under a deed of trust.

In May, 1886, Thomas W. Poster borrowed from defendant, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, through the agency of Jarvis, Conklin & Company, the sum of $2,500, for which he executed his note and a deed of trust on two hundred and forty acres of land in Livingston county, to secure the same. The negotiation of the loan had been conducted through one J. C. Cross, of Chillicothe, Missouri. There were prior deeds of trust on this land, which both the lender and borrower intended should be paid out of the money borrowed.…