Dunlap v. Peirce

Mr. Presiding Justice Shurtleff

delivered the opinion of the court.

In this case originally M. P. Dunlap, defendant in error, filed a bill in the circuit court of Pike county, Illinois, to foreclose a mortgage against the plaintiffs in error. Plaintiffs in error answered the bill and filed a cross-bill, making M. F. Dunlap, William Pete-fish, Otis E. Taylor and Claude C. Petefish defendants to the cross-bill. Answers and replications were filed, evidence taken, and a decree rendered by the circuit court of Pike county in favor of M. F. Dunlap, defendant in error, for the foreclosure of his…