Ortmeier v. Ivory

On September 26, 1901, Patrick Ivory filed a bill in the court below to foreclose a mortgage upon certain lands in Jo Daviess county. He made defendants Henry Ortmeier, the maker of the note secured by said mortgage, and his wife, Lotta, who signed the mortgage with him, and August Gerke and Herman Jansen. The note was dated May 4, 1894, was for the principal sum of $1,200, payable to the order of Patrick Ivory at the Galena National Bank three years after date, with interest at six per cent per annum, payable annually. The bill averred the principal was unpaid, and the interest which matured…