Sutherland v. Long

David J. McMullen owned lots, 1 and 2, in block 105, in the Second Southern addition to the city of Galesburg. He and his wife mortgaged these premises, and having defaulted in the payment of the debt the mortgage was foreclosed. At the foreclosure sale, on September 9, 1911, William A. • Sutherland, appellant, a stranger to the mortgage, purchased the property for the sum of $1900 and received a certificate of purchase from the master in chancery. Me-Mullen did not redeem within the year allowed by the statute. In the meantime appellant had redeemed the property from two tax sales,—one for…