Schmidt v. Seidel

By this writ of error Margaret Holcomb and Lee Holcomb, her husband, after severance ordered, seek to reverse a decree of foreclosure, entered by the circuit court of Cook county on October 11, 1929, of a second trust deed on certain improved premises in Chicago.

The litigation was commenced on August 5, 1926, by the filing of a bill to foreclose the trust deed by William Schmidt (then the owner and holder- of certain notes secured thereby) and Joseph Stein, as trustee. The defendants to the bill were Karoline Seidel (hereinafter called Mrs. Seidel); Margaret Holcomb and Lee Holcomb (owners of…