Harper v. Ely

This is an appeal from the equity side of the circuit court of Cook county, to reverse a decree dismissing a bill filed by appellants praying to redeem certain premises therein described, from a sale under a mortgage executed by Benjamin F. Bradley, one of the complainants, to Benjamin F. Hadduck.

Appellants rely for a reversal of the decree upon three grounds : 1. That the sale by Hadduck under the mortgage of Bradley to him was made during the late war, and while Harper and Bradley were in the southern confederacy, and is void, or voidable, at complainants’ option. 2. There was no power…