Fugman v. Jiri Washington Building & Loan Ass'n

On July 20, 1896, Auguste Peters was the owner of a lot in Cook county of the value of less than $1000, which she occupied, with her husband, Heinrich Peters, as a homestead, and on that day said Auguste Peters and Heinrich Peters, her husband, executed their trust deed to John Stropnicky, trustee, to secure the payment to the Jiri Washington Building and Loan Association of an indebtedness of $700 of said Heinrich Peters for money loaned. The trust deed contained a release of the homestead estate in the body and acknowledgment, but it was acknowledged before John Pecha, a notary public who…