Chase v. Sullivan

This suit was brought by appellant, hereinafter referred to as complainant, to foreclose a purchase money mortgage made by defendants to complainant.

Defendants in their answer sought to have the mortgage and notes reformed, so as to set forth therein an agreement between defendants and complainant's agent, who negotiated the sale of the mortgaged lands to defendants, and attended to the closing of the deal, to the effect that the lands described in the mortgage should alone be responsible for the debt, a clause having been inserted for that purpose, which failed to express the intended…