Belleville State Bank v. Steele

This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals filed April 29, 1983, affirming a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county, J. Richard Long, circuit judge, granting foreclosure of a mortgage. The issue presented is whether a “Notice of Suit” of an Illinois divorce action filed in the office of the register of deeds of Rock County, Wisconsin, the county in which real property owned by one of the parties to the divorce is situated, constitutes a valid lis pendens binding as to any subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer of the property.

The circuit court concluded that the…