Pearce v. Desper

After a trial the circuit court of La Salle County dismissed a complaint to foreclose a trust deed recorded as a second lien on approximately 240 acres of farm land owned by Jessie Desper, herein referred to as the defendant, and granted affirmative relief to defendant upon her counterclaim. Defendant had executed two notes and the trust deed securing them incident to a transaction in which she sold to plaintiffs’ nominee a 160-acre tract, part of a farm, of which the 240 acres carrying the lien in question constituted the remaining portion. The court found, upon defendant’s counterclaim,…