Crowe v. Kennedy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore BrEnLano, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore BrEnLano, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed February 24, 1904, for the partition of certain real estate in Chicago, Illinois, of which Michael Crowe died seized January 19, 1887, the main question being whether appellee Grace Kennedy has a valid and subsisting lien on a portion of said real estate under a trust deed executed by said Crowe and wife July 26, 1886, to secure his note for $4000, or whether the right to enforce said lien is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
If the decree of March 6, 1905, was a final decree and settled the merits of the controversy as to whether the trust deed was still a valid and enforceable lien on the property therein described, then this appeal does not bring before us that decree and the matters therein and thereby decided, but only the decree of March 20, from which the appeal was prayed and perfected. This court in Gray v. Ames, 220 Ill. 251, held that a decree was final which fully decided and disposed of the entire merits of the case; that it would be final if it were the last decree necessary to be entered to give the…
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