Dixon v. CITY NAT'L BK. OF METROPOLIS

Plaintiffs, Milledge and Irene Dixon, purchased certain real estate for $4,201 at an execution sale conducted to satisfy the judgment debt owed by Roy Moller, a joint owner of said property, to the City National Bank of Metropolis, the defendant. When the sale, and the deed issued in pursuance thereof, were subsequently voided in a previous appeal because of the sheriff’s failure to set off the judgment debtor’s *5,000 homestead exemption (Dixon v. Moller (1976), 42 Ill. App. 3d 688, 356 N.E.2d 599), plaintiffs filed an amended complaint to recover their purchase money which was paid to…