Graham v. Fisher

Judgment setting aside a conveyance, a contract, an agreement and a mortgage, and granting other relief, reversed on the law and the facts, with costs, and the complaint dismissed, with costs. The acts of which the plaintiffs complain were those of defendant James B. Fisher. Neither fraud nor duress was established. The parties were in legal effect dealing at arm’s length. The plaintiff James S. Graham was in grave financial difficulties which, unaided, he was unable to solve. He voluntarily invited the assistance of Fisher, who was, as he knew, an experienced man with executive capacity and…