Legal Opinion

Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Scammon

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 12, 1886No. 162PublishedCited by 11 opinions

APPEAL PROM THE CIROUIT COTTRT OP THE UNITED STÁTES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. This was a bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage. The case ■is stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Me. Justice .Blatchfoed

delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 10th of September, 1866, J. Young Scammon, of Chicago, Illinois, and Florence A. D. Scammon and Arianna E. Scammon, his daughters, were the owners, of a lot of lfind in Chicago, No. 90 Michigan Avenue, known as “ lot number five (5), in block number eleven (11), in Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago,” the father being the oAvner in fee of an equal undivided one third part of the lot, and having a tenancy for life ,in the other equal undivided two third parts; and his two daughters’ being each the owner in fee of an equal…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Helson & Randolph v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  2. Haskin v. GreeneOregon Supreme Court · 1955
  3. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. HennefordWashington Supreme Court · 1938
  4. Godfrey State Bank v. MundyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1980
  5. Malvaney v. YagerMontana Supreme Court · 1936

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