Gordon Grossman Building Co. v. Elliott

The basic facts of the instant appeal have been agreed to by the parties. The divergences come toward the latter part of the litigation when a land contract, having been foreclosed, was in the waning days of its period of redemption.

On May 26, 1959, the Gordon Grossman Building Company, as vendor, entered into a land contract covering a parcel of land in St. Clair county with Jeannine Elliott and her husband, John Elliott, as vendees. As the years went by, payments on the contract fell into arrears and plaintiff filed a complaint in the circuit court for the county of St. Clair to foreclose…