Legal Opinion

Webber v. Clark

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 22, 1891PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was filed in the circuit court of Cook county, June 21, 1878, by Lydia Beebe, against Edmund C. Clark, Clara H. Clark, (his wife,) Arthur Warner, James H. Webber, August Miller, Selden Fish, John Sobieski and Charles Herrick, to foreclose the deed of trust on sub-lots 2 and 3, of lot 3, in assessor’s subdivision of La Framboise reservation, in township 40,…

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was filed in the circuit court of Cook county, June 21, 1878, by Lydia Beebe, against Edmund C. Clark, Clara H. Clark, (his wife,) Arthur Warner, James H. Webber, August Miller, Selden Fish, John Sobieski and Charles Herrick, to foreclose the deed of trust on sub-lots 2 and 3, of lot 3, in assessor’s subdivision of La Framboise reservation, in township 40, north, range 12, east, in Cook county, Illinois, containing twenty acres. The bill shows that on September 1, 1875, Lydia…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shore

The execution of the deed of trust, to foreclose which this bill was filed, is not denied, and there can be no dispute that it was given to secure a bonafide loan made by Lydia Beebe, in her lifetime, to Edmund C. Clark, and that subsequent to the sale of the land by Clark to Warner, by the agreement of parties, the trust deed was to stand as security for an additional loan made by Mrs. Beebe to said Warner.

If the grantor in the trust deed had any title to convey to Webber, trustee in the trust deed made to secure Mrs. Beebe’s loan, it is derived from Thaddeus B. Beecher, under whom both…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Stewart v. PlattSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  2. Yeatman v. Savings InstitutionSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  3. Choteau v. JonesIllinois Supreme Court · 1849
  4. Kennedy v. NorthupIllinois Supreme Court · 1853
  5. Smith v. HuntoonIllinois Supreme Court · 1890

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Burton v. PerryIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  2. Coryell v. KlehmIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Heckmann v. DetlaffIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
  4. Harms v. CoryellIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  5. Mansfield v. WallaceIllinois Supreme Court · 1905

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