Hall v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. On January 16, 1859, Winchester Hall borrowed of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company the sum of $8000, to be paid in five years, with ten per cent per annum interest, payable semi-annually, to secure the payment of which loan, Hall and his wife gave a mortgage, ivith power of sale, on certain premises in the city of Chicago.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. On January 16, 1859, Winchester Hall borrowed of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company the sum of $8000, to be paid in five years, with ten per cent per annum interest, payable semi-annually, to secure the payment of which loan, Hall and his wife gave a mortgage, ivith power of sale, on certain premises in the city of Chicago. Hall having failed to pay certain installments of the interest, and the company, having elected, in accordance with the terms of the mortgage, to declare the entire…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The case here presented is one of a voluntary removal from this State after the commencement of the late war of the rebellion, and taking up a residence in one of the rebellious States. Before the petitioner left Chicago, it is matter of history that Louisiana had passed its ordinance of secession, the so-called confederate government had been set up and its president elected, and actual hostilities had been commenced. In The Protector, 12 Wallace, 700, it was decided, as affecting the . operation of statutes of limitation, that the war began April-19-, 1861, in Louisiana.
Assuming that as…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- The William BagaleySupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Ludlow v. RamseySupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Harper v. ElyIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- McCarthy v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1869
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- Kanawha Coal Co. v. Kanawha & O. Coal Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1870