Marsh v. Cook

The Vice-Chancellor.

The complainant seeks a decree adjudging that a mortgage made by her to the defendant is void, because obtained by fraud. Two'grounds are specified: Eirst, that the defendant procured hereto .execute a mortgage to. him for a sum largely in excess of the debt really due; and, second, that heTnduhM'"h®Ho'Vxecute"it byTalsely representing that it was not a mortgage, but merely a written acknowledgment of her indebtedness to him.

The proof in support of the first ground is very feeble^ Aside from certain admissions imputed to the' defendant, *263there is scarcely anything worthy to…