Court Opinion

ID: 6730023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:10:51.280725+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:38.644915
License: Public Domain

This action was brought originally in the Franklin Common Pleas by the First National Bank of Washington, N. C., against Fannie Frank and Samuel Frank, on three promissory notes and for foreclosure of a mortgage securing them.
Fannie Frank filed an answer setting up several defenses, including failure of consideration, fraud, duress, etc., and a cross petition asking for affirmative relief in the cancelling and surrendering of the notes and mortgage.
The Common Pleas denied the defendant a jury trial on the ground that it was an equitable case and not an action at law and rendered judgment on the notes and decreed foreclosure.
This judgment was appealed and the Appeals sustained a motion filed by the Bank to dismiss the appeal as far as the judgment on the notes was concerned, on the ground that it was an action at law and therefore not appealable.
Frank in the Supreme Court, contends:
1.That the judgment of the Appeals was erroneous and contrary to law and bases her contention on 100 OS. 481; 82 OS. 34-41; 108 OS. 314; and Stevens et v. Peck et., Ohio Appeals, First District, Hamilton County, Numbers 2327, 2328 and 2329, appearing in 2 Abs. 778.