Mueller v. Novak

Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.

The controversy in this case arises on a bill filed by Ewald E. Mueller, as receiver of the Kimbark State Bank, to foreclose a trust deed made by Tillie H. Novak and her husband, Charles W. Novak, to the Chicago Title and Trust Company as trustee, conveying 13 vacant lots situate in the City of Chicago, and made to secure the principal note of Charles W. Novak for the sum of $2,700 and one unpaid coupon note for $81, evidencing the last semiannual instalment of interest prior to the maturity of the principal note.

The fact that the…