Levy v. Odell

This is an appeal by Joseph E. Hesser and H. F. Soden, defendants, from a decree allowing Buth Levy, Julia Levy and Katherine Levy Goldman, complainants, as heirs of their father, Emanuel Levy, to redeem from a mortgage executed by Emanuel Levy and his wife, Sarah Levy, to F. B. Odell, to secure the payment of an indebtedness of $8,400.

On the death of Emanuel Levy, Odell, as owner, and the Chicago Title & Trust Company, as trustee, filed a bill to foreclose the mortgage. The bill alleged that the heirs of Levy were unknown, that the title to the mortgaged property was held in joint tenancy by…