Claycomb v. Lyon

Mr. Presiding Justice Partlow

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, Nina Claycomb, as administratrix of the estate of Gertrude A. Carter, deceased, filed her bill in the circuit court of Henry county against the appellant, Robert B. Lyon, to foreclose a trust deed given to secure a note of $3,600 executed by appellant. The appellant filed his answer in which he admitted the execution of the note and trust deed, and alleged that afterwards he executed twenty-eight $1,000 notes, payable in five years, and delivered twenty-six of them to the Geneseo Savings Bank of Geneseo, Illinois,…