Hosmer v. Campbell

The parties in interest in this litigation, both complainant and defendants, claim the title to the property that was in James L. and Frank W. Campbell, who it is conceded were at one time the owners of the same, in fee simple. On the 20th of December, 1870, the owners made a trust deed on the two lots in controversy to F. B. Peabody, to secure a note of James L. Campbell, one of the then owners, for the sum of $5000, payable to his own order nine months after date, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum. This deed was recorded in the proper office in Cook county, where the…