Illinois National Bank v. Gwinn

This appeal stems from a decree of the circuit court of Douglas County entered on a petition for accounting and relief which was pending in the foreclosure proceeding previously considered by this court in Illinois National Bank of Springfield v. Gwinn, 390 Ill. 345. In that decision we held that the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Relief Act of 1940 extended the period during which Elmer E. Gwinn, Jr., the owner of the equitable title, could redeem the premises foreclosed upon, thus nullifying the purchase by one Burnside who was then in possession under a sheriff’s deed. Subsequently, Gwinn filed an…