Pratt v. Pratt
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; the Hon. Hath aniel J. Pillsbijry, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Joseph Sibley and Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Justices. This was an appeal by Mary L. Pratt from a decree rendered in the circuit court of McHenry county on a hearing before the Hon. C. W. Upton, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; the Hon. Hath aniel J. Pillsbijry, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Joseph Sibley and Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Justices. This was an appeal by Mary L. Pratt from a decree rendered in the circuit court of McHenry county on a hearing before the Hon. C. W. Upton, Judge, presiding. On November 27, 1872, James Pratt filed a creditor’s bill to subject the interest of Russell Grimes in certain lands to the payment of a certain decree in favor of Pratt against Russell Grimes, and to set aside a mortgage of said Grimes to Philemon B. Pratt, dated…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It is conceded by appellant that Miller and wife have a first lien on three of the tracts of land in controversy for the amount advanced by them to Alexander Grimes to redeem from the sale to Merrill under the foreclosure of Barrett’s mortgage. But it is insisted that there is nothing else that is prior to Pratt’s mortgage; that the sum paid to Phillips to prevent his obtaining a tax title on the land, and the note purchased by Miller and wife from Jacob Grimes on Russell Grimes, were not and could not be made prior liens to Pratt’s mortgage.
As the taxes were paid to preserve the title to the…
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