Montgomery v. Commercial Trust & Savings Bank

Defendant appeals from an adverse decree entered after hearing by the court in a chancery proceeding.

Plaintiff alleged that on April 27, 1926, she was the owner of a promissory note for $13,000 drawing interest at six per cent, secured by a trust deed upon land in McHenry county, Illinois; that she left these papers with John F. Hahn for possible foreclosure; that subsequently, without her knowledge or consent these papers or their equivalent came into the .possession of the defendant bank, which has refused to deliver them to plaintiff. Defendant answering says, among other things, that it…