Allen v. Hawley

In the autumn of 1857, appellee Robert Hawley obtained a loan of $1200 from appellant. Hawley executed his note bearing date November 12th, 1857, for $1800, and at the same time he and his wife, to secure the same, executed a deed of trust to 1ST. D. El wood upon the southwest quarter of section 36, township 32 north, range 9 east, in Will county, but Mrs. Hawley did not release her right of homestead. Hawley owned the fee in the east half of the quarter, and held the other under a contract of purchase from one Steel, upon which he owed about $400. When the payment matured under this purchase…