Walbridge v. Day
Illinois Supreme Court
pi Weit of Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe county of La Salle; tbe Hon. MadisoN E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. In tbe year 1834, Edward Keys was the owner in fee simple of lot number eight, in block number fifteen, in tbe town of Peru, in La Salle county. Soon after, Keys died intestate, seized of the premises, leaving a widow and children.
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pi Weit of Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe county of La Salle; tbe Hon. MadisoN E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. In tbe year 1834, Edward Keys was the owner in fee simple of lot number eight, in block number fifteen, in tbe town of Peru, in La Salle county. Soon after, Keys died intestate, seized of the premises, leaving a widow and children. In 1837, George W. Howe became administrator of tbe estate, and in that capacity, on the 1st of September, 1837, be received from one Spaulding a mortgage upon these same premises, to secure tbe sum of $530. What title or claim Spaulding bad to tbe lot,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice WaleeR
It appears from the evidence in this record, that Keys in his lifetime, was the owner of the lot in controversy. That upon his death, Howe became the administrator of his estate, and, ás such, took a mortgage from Spaulding, upon this lot, to secure a debt payable to him as administrator, for the sum of five hundred and thirty dollars. That after its maturity h,e foreclosed the mortgage by scire facias, and the property was sold to Williams, who afterwards assigned his certificate of purchase to Crosier, to whom the sheriff afterwards conveyed the lot. Defendants in error became the…
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