Tompkins v. Fifth National Bank
Illinois Supreme Court
Wbit of Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a bill in chancery against the Fifth National Bank of Chicago and Hugh Lewis, to remove a cloud upon the title of Flora Tompkins to a certain lot in the city of Chicago. The record shows that September 4,.1866, she purchased the lot of one Henry Deverill, who conveyed to her by warranty deed, she assuming the payment of two certain mortgages to which the lot was then subject.
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Wbit of Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a bill in chancery against the Fifth National Bank of Chicago and Hugh Lewis, to remove a cloud upon the title of Flora Tompkins to a certain lot in the city of Chicago. The record shows that September 4,.1866, she purchased the lot of one Henry Deverill, who conveyed to her by warranty deed, she assuming the payment of two certain mortgages to which the lot was then subject. Prior to the purchase, however, on March 16, 1866, the Fifth National Bank of Chicago attached the property, for the joint debt of the said Henry Deverill and one…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was a bill in chancery to remove a cloud upon the title of complainants to a certain lot in the city of Chicago, interposed, as alleged, by a judgment in an attachment suit brought by the Fifth National Bank of Chicago against the firm of Bell & Deverill, and which complainants alleged had been fully paid and satisfied. This is the pivot on which the case turns. The evidence must settle it. The most careful examination we have been able to give the testimony satisfies us, that the attachment and levy and the judgment were obtained in the interest of Bell, and have been since attempted to…
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