Union National Bank v. State National Bank

This was a bill brought by the State National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., to foreclose a mortgage bearing date February 16, 1895, executed by John Moran and Kate Moran, his wife, on certain real estate in Chicago. In addition to Moran and wife, the defendants in the bill were the St. Joseph Stock Yards and Terminal Company, a subsequent mortgagee, and the Union National Bank of Chicago, a subsequent attaching creditor. The circuit court decreed the foreclosure of the mortgage as a first lien upon the premises in question. From that decree the Union National Bank appealed to the Appellate Court…