Ministers Life & Casualty Union v. Franklin Park Towers Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the intention of the parties to create an equitable mortgage is ascertained “by the written memorials of the transaction and the attendant facts and circumstances”
• “The controlling legal principle ... is that a deed absolute in form is presumed to be, and will be treated as a conveyance unless both parties in fact intended a loan transaction with the deed as security only.”
• discussing factual distinction between sale and equitable mortgage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).