Steger v. Traveling Men's Building & Loan Ass'n

The only question to be decided on this appeal is one of priority between liens held by the appellant and by the Traveling Men’s Building and Loan Association, one of the appellees, upon a homestead estate in a lot in Chicago. The property, at the time the liens were created, was the homestead of Joseph Strozewski. The lien of the building association on the lot is by virtue of a trust deed executed June 18, 1894, by Joseph Strozewski and Marcianna, his wife, to the American Trust and Savings Bank, trustee, to secure an indebtedness in the sum of §3300 for money loaned, with interest and…