Estate of Jones v. Jones
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a case certified from the Morgan Circuit Court, in which eight different suits of foreign attachment were involved. The several cases were submitted upon the same argument. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Treat, 0. J.
This is an agreed case, certified from the Morgan circuit court. The facts are these:
In January, 1858, Sylvester Jones mortgaged certain real estate to James Leighton, and the mortgage was filed for record on the 8th of August, 1854. On the last named day, Jacob Strawn, Philip Coffman, and Coffman and Cassel, without notice of the mortgage, severally sued out attachments against Jones, returnable to the ensuing October term of the circuit court; and the same were levied on the mortgaged premises, and the levy recorded, before the filing of the mortgage for record. •Judgments were…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rucker v. FullerIllinois Supreme Court · 1849
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