Legal Opinion

Paterson v. Higgins

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 4, 1895PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Bill to Foreclose a Chattel Mortgage.—Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. William G-. Ewing, Judge, presiding. Heard in that court at the March term, 1895.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error purchased the household goods contained in a boarding house, paying $1,100 down and giving her notes for $1,200, secured by a chattel mortgage upon the property sold to her; she being at the time a married woman living separate and apart from her husband.

Two of the notes she paid as they respectively matured; default having been made in the payment of another, a bill to foreclose the mortgage was brought by the vendor and holder of the notes, Mrs. Higgins.

The defense made to this bill was, first, that the…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Boggs v. O. S. Kelly Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1907
  2. Lanum v. PattersonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1908
  3. American Trust Co. v. GreunerCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1936
  4. Durbin v. Carter Oil Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1941
  5. Brewster v. Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1896

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