Taylor v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

In the unusual facts in this case we have testimony by an individual that he knew nothing of an assignment of a mortgage to him, that a subsequent assignment of that mortgage purportedly by him was not in fact signed by him, that he only recently has learned of a chancery sale reported in his name, that he paid no part of the purchase price of that property, that he learned 36 years after the fact that title to the real estate stood in his name as a result of an assignee’s deed from that sale, and that he, as a member of the bar, was induced more than 40 years ago by a then circuit judge to…