City National Bank v. Langley

Glover and Barbara Langley appeal the granting of the motion to dismiss their petition to vacate default judgment and judgment of foreclosure and sale pursuant to section 2 — 1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 2 — 1401). Defendants raise issues concerning timeliness of the judgment, notice, the standard applied by the trial court and whether the trial judge erred in granting plaintiff’s motion to dismiss.

The complicated history of this matter requires an understanding of the factual setting in which this case arose. Defendants previously filed a…