Wood v. Stover's administrators

The Chiee Justice.

It being urged, on the argument, as one of the grounds for the reversal of the' decree in this case, that a party necessary to the suit, and to a final decision of its equities, had been omitted, it appears to this court to he advisable to dispose of such question in limine.

The hill was exhibited for the re-instatement of a mortgage, the cancellation of which, it is alleged, was procured by the fraud of the appellants, Freeman Wood, and his son William J. Wood'. The title to the premises, from which the mortgage in question has been removed, had stood in' the name of William…