Hicks v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““A court of equity would not allow a decree upon the note and mortgage in suit and then turn the defendant over to another suit to recover the amount out of which he had been'wronged by the fraud and falsehood of the complainant. Having the parties before it, it would adjust the controversies between lliem springing out of the same transaction, according to equity and good conscience.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richardson v. Lowe