Hallford v. Bairstow

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

On April 7, 1937, J. L. Hallford, one of the plaintiffs, purchased from the legal holder, a master’s certificate for the sale of a farm issued in a mortgage foreclosure suit. The owners of the farm, at the time the foreclosure suit was brought, were Katherine E. Mohrmann, Joseph L. Mohrmann, Elizabeth Mohrmann Brewer, Anna J. Mohrmann and Emily L. Mohrmann. The time allowed to them by statute to redeem the farm from the sale expired on February 1, 1938, without redemption having been made by them. On April 30, 1938, defendant, J.…