Tracy & Co. v. Harris
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Affidavit of illegality, from city court of Sylvester — Judge Park. September 30, 1908.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
The defense to the mortgage foreclosure was that the defendant had been induced to sign the mortgage through fraud. She showed that she was a married woman, and that the plaintiffs’ agent, in company with her uncle-in-law, came to her home in her husband’s absence and asked her to sign a paper, stating that it was a draft for $50 to cover future advances to be made her by the store at which she was trading. She objected to signing in her husband’s absence. The agent said he could not.wait long enough to see her husband, as he was under the necessity of catching the train. The uncle said it…
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