Merrick v. Daehler

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal questions whether the grantee in a deed given as security in the nature of a mortgage has effected a change in prior title by a conveyance after repayment of the debt.

Edwin W. Merrick, as executor of the Last WiU and Testament of Pauline M. Evans, Deceased, and Elizabeth Bales, a residuary beneficiary under the wffl, sued to eject the defendant from the premises on which she resided, and to quiet title in the Estate. The defendant Florence Daehler counterclaimed, asking that the deed divesting her of any interest…