Powers v. Walrath

This writ of error was originally sued out from the Supreme Court to review a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, entered November 27, 1923, dismissing complainants’ bill for want of equity after a hearing upon the merits. The prayer of the bill, filed September 12, 1923, was in substance that the warranty deed, delivered to William B. Walrath (grantee) on March 5, 1920, to certain improved premises, known as 420 Elmwood avenue, Wilmette, Illinois, be decreed to be merely a mortgage to secure a loan made by him to Horace Gr. Powers, and that Powers be granted the right to redeem upon…