Hillsboro Building & Improvement Ass'n v. Simmering

On the 27th day of July, 1891, James Shears, being the owner of lot five (5) block seven (7) in Beeler’s 4th Addition to Litchfield, in Montgomery county, State of Illinois, and being indebted to appellant in the sum of $422.54, in order to secure the payment of the same, made, executed and acknowledged his certain mortgage indenture, of the same date, which was filed for record in the recorder’s office of Montgomery county, on the 4th day of August, 1891. Shears not being able to make the payments as they became due under the provisions of the mortgage, on the 17th day of December, 1894,…