McIntyre v. Velte

Citations

• 153 Pa. 350
• 25 A. 739
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1107

Syllabus

<p>Mortgage — Material alteration — Effect of.</p> <p>A mortgage, though in form a conveyance of title, is in reality, both at law and in equity, only a security for the payment of money, and any material alteration of it by the mortgagee renders it absolutely void.</p> <p>Where the record of a mortgage shows that the number of days allowed for default in the scire facias clause was left blank, but the mortgage itself when suit was brought upon it showed that the blank had been filled with the words “ twenty days,” the mortgage is absolutely void.</p>