Foote v. Yarlott

On March 22, 1892, Mary Yarlott owned a lot in Chicago having a -frontage of forty feet, on which there was a three-story flat-building of six flats, having its front and rear entrances in the center of the building, one-half of the doors, halls and stairways being on either side of the center line, and with Edward L. Yarlott she executed notes and trust deeds, one on each half. She had applied for a loan of $10,000 upon the entire lot and building, but when the notes and trust deeds were executed two notes were given, for $5000 each, at the request of the lender, and one was secured by a…