Aurora Agricultural & Horticultural Society v. Paddock
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Silvanus Wilcox, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, by Henry 0. Paddock, Thomas B. Coulter and Lucy Coulter, executors of the last will and testament of John E. Coulter, deceased, against the Aurora Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Aurora, Illinois, and various others, to foreclose a mortgage given by the society to John E. Coulter, in his lifetime.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ceaig
This was a bill in equity, brought by appellees, to foreclose a mortgage executed by the Aurora Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Aurora, on the 28th day of December, 1870, to secure the payment of $6000 loaned by John E. Coulter to the society. The court, on a hearing of the cause, rendered a decree directing a sale of the mortgaged premises in satisfaction of the mortgage debt.
The society has prosecuted this appeal, and in order to obtain a reversal of the decree, it is insisted by the counsel for appellant:
Fvrst—That the society had no power whatever to mortgage.
Second—That the…
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