Mid-West National Bank v. Metcoff

This is an appeal from an order which limited the satisfaction of a lien to 50% of the proceeds of the judicial sale of real estate and which denied allowance of attorney’s fees.

On June 20, 1969, a judgment in the sum of $43,731.75 (later reduced by credits to $35,731.75) was rendered in the Circuit Court of Cook County in favor of defendants-counterplaintiffs-appellants Elaine R. Biel and George Erode (hereinafter Biel and Erode) against James Metcoff and Eleanor Metcoff.

The Metcoffs were the purchasers under contract of a Deerfield residence which, on December 24, 1969, was conveyed from…