Marx v. State Bank

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court reversing a decree of the circuit court of Cook county for the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of real estate in a partition suit brought by appellant. The premises sold at the partition sale belonged to Amelia Marx, who died intestate in January, 1914, leaving three sons, Frederick Z., Walter Z. and Zero, her only heirs. In her lifetime, and while her husband, who predeceased her, was still living, she became indebted to the State Bank of Chicago in the sum of $7000, for which notes, secured by a trust deed on the premises,…