Legal Opinion

Dorn v. Geuder

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 14, 1898PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed on the 20th day of April, 1895, by the appellee Philip Geuder, as executor of the last will and testament of Johann Geuder, deceased, and Edward S. Dreyer, trustee, against Gay Dorn, the appellant, and his wife and others, for the foreclosure of a certain trust deed.

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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed on the 20th day of April, 1895, by the appellee Philip Geuder, as executor of the last will and testament of Johann Geuder, deceased, and Edward S. Dreyer, trustee, against Gay Dorn, the appellant, and his wife and others, for the foreclosure of a certain trust deed. The bill alleged “that on March 3, 1890, Gay Dorn, for value received, made his one principal promissory note of that date, and…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs

The case made by the allegations of the bill is, that the appellant had made default in the payment of the principal note according to its tenor and effect, and also in the payment of the six coupon notes given at the time the principal note was executed to evidence the liability of the appellant to pay interest semi-annually on the principal note from the date thereof to the 3d day of March, 1893, the date of its maturity.

It appeared from the report of the master, which, in this respect, it is conceded is fully supported by un contro verted testimony, that appellant had paid each of said…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Morgan v. SmithIllinois Supreme Court · 1849

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Higgins v. HigginsIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  2. Farmer City State Bank v. Champaign National BankAppellate Court of Illinois · 1985
  3. Leffers v. HayesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1945
  4. Field v. FieldIllinois Supreme Court · 1925
  5. Beery v. HurdAppellate Court of Illinois · 1938

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