Ball v. Marske
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery brought by defendants in error, as trustees in a certain trust deed, to foreclose the same- as a mortgage.
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Writ of Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery brought by defendants in error, as trustees in a certain trust deed, to foreclose the same- as a mortgage. William J. Murdoch, one of the plaintiffs in error, held a contract for the purchase of a certain lot from the Lincoln and Fifth Ward Building and Loan Association, on which he had paid $40. He applied to defendants in error for a loan of $1500 to complete the payment of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Counsel for plaintiffs in error insists that the decree is erroneous because the amount for which the note and trust deed were given was not paid to the makers of the notes or to any one for them. The testimony on this point has been very meagerly- abstracted, but on looking into the record we find that Charles P. Eichl, one of the defendants in error, testified that he paid out between 8600 and $800 on bills for material for Murdoch, — that is, on itemized statements, handed him by Murdoch, of the bills outstanding for materials and labor for alterations and improvements of. the house on the…
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