John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Watson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Arthur W. Deselm, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
June 9,1914, Gertrude Gordon was the owner of 875 acres of farm land in the County of Kankakee, subject to a mortgage of $27,000 to the appellee, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, and a junior mortgage to another party for $38,700. The land was rented by her in parcels to different tenants at share rent. (The terms of the leasing are not disclosed.) On that day she executed a chattel mortgage to William H. Watson, the appellant, on her interest in acreage of growing crops déscribed as: of 50 acres of timothy meadow; 40 per cent, of 200 acres planted in oats; 40 per cent, of 300…
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