Case Name: BATDORF v. DYKSTRA
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1907-03-05
Citations: 147 Mich. 369
Docket Number: Docket No. 42
Parties: BATDORF v. DYKSTRA.
Judges: McAlvay, C. J., and Grant, Hooker, and Moore, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 369–369

Head Matter:
BATDORF v. DYKSTRA.
Mortgages— Foreclosure — Exchange op Property — Fraud— Evidence.
On a bill to foreclose a mortgage given as part consideration for an exchange of property, evidence examined, and held, that defendant’s allegations of fraud in the transaction were not sustained.
Appeal from Kent; Perkins, J.
Submitted January 16, 1907.
(Docket No. 42.)
Decided March 5, 1907.
Bill by Jacob C. Batdorf against John R. Dykstra and another to foreclose a mortgage. Prom a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Dwight Goss, for complainant.
Holmes & Holmes, for defendants.

Opinion:
Carpenter, J.
This is a suit brought to foreclose a mortgage given by defendant John R. Dykstra and his wife, since deceased, to complainant. This mortgage was given as a part of a transaction whereby complainant exchanged a farm, upon which the mortgage is given, for a house and lot formerly owned by defendant Dykstra in the city of Grand Rapids.
It is contended that complainant defrauded Dykstra in this exchange and that the damages therefor exceeded the amount secured by the mortgage. Prom testimony taken in open court the learned trial judge decided that no fraud was committed, and he therefore gave complainant a decree for the full amount of the mortgage indebtedness. An examination of the record convinces us that he reached a correct conclusion.
The decree is therefore affirmed, with costs.
McAlvay, C. J., and Grant, Hooker, and Moore, JJ., concurred.