First-Trust Joint Stock Land Bank v. Hickok

This cause is here on leave to appeal granted to review the judgment of the Appellate Court reversing the decree of the circuit court of LaSalle county, which foreclosed a mortgage upon a certain tract of land in that county.

The facts are as follows: In 1921, appellee Horace A. Hickok, and his wife, borrowed from his mother, Martha Hickok, the sum of $6000 and gave their note, secured by a mortgage on 80 acres of land in LaSalle county, for the sum of $6000. This mortgage was made subject to another mortgage referred to in this record as the Hummer mortgage. A short time after the execution…