Roderick v. McMeekin
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Boone county; the Hon. Charles E. Fuller, Judge, presiding. These consolidated causes are two bills, each to foreclose a mortgage.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Boone county; the Hon. Charles E. Fuller, Judge, presiding. These consolidated causes are two bills, each to foreclose a mortgage. On December 18, 1900, the defendant in error, Catherine McMeekin, filed her bill in the circuit court of Boone county against Howard H. Hicks, Mary E. Roderick, the plaintiff in error, Isaac Sandall, Elias .Cleveland, S. 1ST. Burdick, Frank Reed and Frank Campbell, to foreclose a mortgage, dated September 4, 1893, and recorded on September 5, 1893, executed by Howard H. Hicks, a widower, of Belvidere, Illinois, conveying lot 4…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The main and material controversy in this case is between the defendant in error, Catherine McMeekin, holding a mortgage upon the property in question executed by Howard H. Hicks, and Mary E. Roderick, claiming to have been a purchaser of said premises from Hicks." The question is, whether the mortgage is entitled to priority over the interest or equity of the alleged purchaser.
Hicks executed the mortgage to defendant in error, McMeekin, on September 4, 1893, and the same was recorded on September 5,1893. At that time the title of record stood in Hicks, and there was no title whatever in…
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