M.J. KELLY, J.
This appeal presents an issue of first impression regarding the authority of a national bank to obtain a second mortgage as security for a real estate loan under the federal and state banking acts as written in 1971.
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Plaintiff and her former husband owned a single-family residence in Southfield subject to a first mortgage and were buying a parcel of commercial property in Detroit on a land contract. On December 1, 1971, the defendant...
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