Trifeld v. Winchester Development Co.

The statement of the condition of these causes is quite succinctly stated in the complainants' brief as follows:

"The bills filed in all the above cases were ordinary foreclosure bills, in all of which the Winchester Development Company was made a defendant, as the owner of the fee. They fall into three groups, as was pointed out at the time of the trial.

"The first group, consisting of the Trifeld, Hamilton andSeaboard Cases, are cases in which the receiver alone filed an answer and counter-claim. The receiver's answer sets up that the mortgages were executed by two parties purporting to act…