Legal Opinion

Greene v. Taylor

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 16, 1889No. 128PublishedCited by 7 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.' The court, in its opinion, stated the case aá follows: Oh the 1st of April, 1871, Nathan S. Grow, of Chicago, Illinois, executed a trust deed to Benjamin E. Gallup, of the same place, to secure the payment of a. promissory note for $35,000, payable in five years from that date, with interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum, payable half-yearly on October 1 and April 1, as…

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APPEAL FROM THE' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.' The court, in its opinion, stated the case aá follows: Oh the 1st of April, 1871, Nathan S. Grow, of Chicago, Illinois, executed a trust deed to Benjamin E. Gallup, of the same place, to secure the payment of a. promissory note for $35,000, payable in five years from that date, with interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum, payable half-yearly on October 1 and April 1, as evidenced by 10 interest coupons, bearing the same date, for $1575 each. The note was payable ’ to the order of Grow, and was…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford

The plaintiffs claim a right to redeem from the sale to Greene, made by Peabody as trustee, or from the trust deed und[er which that sale was made, on. payment of the mortgage debt, (1) as owners of Robertson’s equity of redemption by virtue of their purchase from the assignee in bankruptcy; and (2) as judgment creditors of Robertson, having a lien on the property by virtue of their judgment, prior in time to the sale, by Peabody as trustee, and by their purchase of the property at the sale under the execution issued on their judgm'ent. •

They rest their claim under their purchase from the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Gifford v. HelmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Wisner v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1887

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Sessions v. RomadkaSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Coryell v. KlehmIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Pearsall v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  4. Rock v. DennettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
  5. Leathem & Smith Lumber Co. v. NaltySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902

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