Morse v. Smith

John H. Morse and wife executed to Lorinda D. Magill a mortgage, bearing date May 1,1867, to secure a note of $700. The property mentioned in the mortgage was lot five, in block eleven (11), in the city of Peoria, and certain other lots. This mortgage was recorded January 23,1869. Morse and his wife had, on April 3, 1867, executed a former mortgage of the lot five to one Simpson to secure to him a debt of some $2500, and the Simpson mortgage was recorded April 6, 1867.

Lorinda Magill was married September 1, 1867, to John McCIay Smith. In 1872 the Simpson mortgagewas foreclosed by scire…