German-American Savings, Loan & Building Ass'n v. Trainor

In 1912 a bill filed in the circuit court of Cook county to foreclose certain trust deeds was dismissed for want of equity. From that .decree an appeal was prayed to the Appellate Court. On that appeal Henry C. Bartling, as liquidator, and Alexander Klappenbach and C. M. Staiger, (who has since deceased,) entered themselves as security for the costs. Pending the decision of the cause in the Appellate Court the parties to the litigation reached a settlement and filed satisfaction pieces in the trial court and apparently also in the Appellate Court. Thereafter there was a dispute as to whether…