Windett v. Union Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. In Equity, to foreclose a mortgage. The mortgagor having failed to pay the taxes on the mortgaged premises, they were sold for taxes. The mortgagee bought in the tax titles from the purchaser, and filed this bill to foreclose the mortgage.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. In Equity, to foreclose a mortgage. The mortgagor having failed to pay the taxes on the mortgaged premises, they were sold for taxes. The mortgagee bought in the tax titles from the purchaser, and filed this bill to foreclose the mortgage. The mortgagor set up in reduction of the mortgage debt a claim for retainers as attorney at law of the mortgagee for services never performed, and further contested the allowance of the .amount paid by the mortgagee to acquire the tax titles, on the ground that the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This was a bill in equity by a corporation of Maine against a citizen of Illinois to foreclose a deed of trust, in the nature of a mortgage, of land in Chicago, made by the defendant to the plaintiff on July 12, 1869, 'to secure the payment of his note of that date for $7500, payable in five years, with interest at the rate of eight per cent; and containing covenants that the premises were “ free and clear of all liens and incumbrances,” and that the mortgagor would “ in due season pay all taxes and assessments on said premises, and exhibit once a year receipts of the proper persons to said…
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