Shinn v. Shinn
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding. The appellee Horace B.'Shinri filed his bill in the circuit court of Moultrie county, at its October term, 1872, to foreclose a mortgage alleged to have been executed to him by the appellant Clement L. Shinn, on the 6th of January, 1865, conveying certain land lying in the county of Moultrie, described in the bill.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding. The appellee Horace B.'Shinri filed his bill in the circuit court of Moultrie county, at its October term, 1872, to foreclose a mortgage alleged to have been executed to him by the appellant Clement L. Shinn, on the 6th of January, 1865, conveying certain land lying in the county of Moultrie, described in the bill. The bill alleged that on the 6th of January, 1865, appellant Clement L. Shinn became indebted to complainant in the sum of $5000, secured by three promissory notes, one for $2000, due May 1,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
There are two errors, we think, in the finding and decree of the court below, for which the decree must be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
It appears that there was a mortgage executed by William H. Shinn and Mary A. Kenny to Albert C. Burnham, as trustee for Austin M. Ward, of a date subsequent to the mortgage by Clement L. Shinn to Horace B., and subsequent to the purchase by the said William H. and Mary Ann, and to the execution by the master of his deed to them, for a loan of five thousand dollars made to them by Ward. Ward has, then, an equitable interest in the…
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