Tarke
Tarke v. Bingham
Opinion
Lead Opinion
This action was to reform, and, as reformed, to foreclose a mortgage upon real estate. Plaintiff had judgment, from which and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial this appeal is taken.
The note to secure which the mortgage was given was a note payable three years after date, and was signed James Dunne, William J. Bingham, Anne Bingham. The note described in the mortgage for which the security was given was made payable “one year after date,” and was signed James Dunne, William J. Bingham, Anne Dunne. The complaint set forth the note and mortgage, and alleged that the copy of the promissory note set out in the mortgage was intended by all the parties to the mortgage to be a true copy of the promissory note actually made by the parties, and that the mortgage was intended to secure the payment of the promissory note so executed, hut that by a clerical error of the scrivener the terms of the promissory note were incorrectly copied into the mortgage. Defendants do not deny any of the material allegations of the amended complaint, except that they allege that the note intended to be secured was correctly described in the mortgage, saving as to the name Anne Dunne,…