Fairfield v. McArthur
Fairfield v. McArthur
Opinion of the Court
The alleged fraudulent conduct on the part of Paddock, the original mortgagee, upon Darling, the mortgagor, cannot be set up by the present defendants as a defence to this action. The defendants hold their title wholly by a quitclaim deed from the mortgagor to C. A. Darling, and a similar deed from C. A. Darling to McArthur. Such quitclaim deeds do
The case of Van Deusen v. Frink, 15 Pick. 449, was not like the present. It was a case where a creditor of the grantor sought to avail himself of a fraud practised upon his debtor in obtaining from him a release of an equity of redemption, and, having levied on the equity as still subsisting, was allowed to set aside the release for such fraud, in a bill to redeem the estate from the incumbrance of the mortgage, which was held by the party alleged to have practised the fraud.
Exceptions overruled
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