Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Slee
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver A. Harker, Judge, presiding. On the 13th of October, 1880, William J. Slee filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, against the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, alleging that on the 4th of June, 1870, being indebted to the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, by his promissory note of that date, for $4500, borrowed money, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver A. Harker, Judge, presiding. On the 13th of October, 1880, William J. Slee filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, against the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, alleging that on the 4th of June, 1870, being indebted to the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, by his promissory note of that date, for $4500, borrowed money, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, he secured the same by his deed of trust of lot 1, block 9, in assessor’s second division, etc., and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
We think that the evidence in the present record, in respect of Slee’s right to redeem from the insurance company, is not so materially different from that in the record when the case was here before, (Union Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Slee, 110 Ill. 35,) as to call for a different conclusion from that then reached, and there is, in our opinion, too little ground for controversy in this respect to require a recitation or discussion of the evidence.
The question then occurs, is Slee barred of this right by the conveyances by the insurance company to Averill, by Averill to Thomas, and by Thomas to…
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