Smith v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““Now back to Exerdell [mortgagor] and her devious transaction. We think it is obvious that what she did was morally wrong and we further think that in a court of equity it should be rectified. When the chaff is blown from the grain she is shown to have relieved her separate property of an encumbrance with the money of the Smiths. Moreover, we believe the victims of her crafty conduct can find redress in a court of equity without any violence being done to organic law.” 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 234 So. 2d 1 - Zofnas v. Holwell