Alton Marine & Fire Insurance v. Buckmaster
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill filed by the Insurance Company against Buckmaster, Godfrey, Keating, and Krum, to quiet the title to the lots of land described in the opinion of the court. The opinion gives a full statement of the case. At March term, 1850, of the Madison Circuit Court, Underwood, Judge, presiding, the bill was dismissed at the cost of the complainants, who prayed for and obtained this appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
This bill shows, that the complainants, on the 24th of March, 1838, took a mortgage from Holderman, on lots five and six, and two thirds of lot seven, in block twenty-five, in Alton, which was duly acknowledged and recorded. That at the February term, 1838, of the Madison Circuit Court, Krum, as executor of Emerson, deceased, recovered a judgment against Holderman for $533.48 and costs; that Krum, at the time the mortgage was executed, was the attorney and legal adviser of the complainants and as such examined the title to these lots for them, which he found to be unincumbered except by his…
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