Schnadt v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed by appellee, Charles W. Davis, for a decree foreclosing a certain trust deed executed by appellants, Anna and Frederick Schnadt, to Aaron B. Mead, as trustee, to secure a certain principal note in the sum of $2500, and interest coupon notes attached, signed by said mortgagors and payable to one John L. Healy, the notes, as the bill alleged, having been assigned to the complainant. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
Section 39 of chapter 22 of the Revised Statutes, entitled “Chancery,” provides a cause may be referred to the master in chancery to take and report the evidence with or without his conclusions thereupon. In the case at bar the cause was referred to the master to take the proof in the cause and report the same, together with his “opinion of the law and the evidence.” It was the duty of the master, under this order of reference, to cause the witnesses to be brought before him and examined, to have their testimony reduced to writing and to embody-such testimony in his report, together with his…
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