Stocker v. Curtis

Frank G. Stocker filed a bill in equity in the superior court of Cook county against Mae L. Curtis, a judgment creditor, and Michael Zimmer, sheriff of Cook county, to enjoin the sheriff from issuing a certificate of sale and from making a deed in pursuance of said sale to two lots, one of which was improved with a dwelling house, alleging in his bill that the premises were his homestead occupied by him and his family, and that neither the sheriff nor the judgment creditor had paid or tendered him $1000 or deposited the same for his benefit, or otherwise complied with the statute in relation…