Von Campe v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lorin C. Collins, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lorin C. Collins, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County on February 11, 1889, by the City of Chicago against Orrington Lunt, Sarah E. Yon Campe, H. Yon Campe, her husband, Augusta L. Von Alten, Eberhardt Yon Alten, her husband, and Frank L. Stevens to foreclose the five mortgages hereinafter described upon parts of wharfing lots 24 and 25 in the City of Chicago. All the defendants answered, and, after proofs taken and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
The mortgages, which this bill was filed to foreclose, are dated April 1, 1848, and were executed when the limitation law of 1845 was in force.
The interest on each of them was paid up to August 1, 1876, but since the latter date no interest fias been paid, either by the original mortgagor, or any of his grantees. August 1, 1876, is conceded to be the date of the default in the payment of the interest. The main defense made is, that this suit is barred by section eleven of the Limitation Act of April 4, 1872, inasmuch as the bill was not filed until nearly thirteen years after the cause of…
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