Boudinot v. Winter

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the circuit court. In deciding the case, the Appellate Court delivered the following opinion:

“Appellee, as the administrator of S. James McKee, deceased, filed his bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage executed by appellant for $4000, May 17, 1889, with seven per cent interest, payable semi-annually, to Charles E. Houghton, upon an undivided half interest in certain city property in Danville, of which McKee owned the other half. Appellant filed answer to the bill, in which it is claimed, in substance, that by…