Sumner v. Waugh

This was a bill, in chancery, brought originally to the circuit court of Mercer county, and by change of venue taken to the Peoria circuit court, the object of which was, to foreclose a mortgage alleged to have been executed by John M. Waugh and wife and Henry B. Ellis and wife to Benjamin T. Sisson, and by him assigned to the complainants. Waugh and Ellis and Sisson were made parties defendant, together with Thomas B. Ellis, and others named, on the allegation that they claimed to have some interest in the lands described in the mortgage, as purchasers or otherwise, and that the interest…