Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Cushman
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POB THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. Bill for foreclosure of a mortgage: decree of foreclosure: demand to redeem and tender of payment: petition of the plaintiff, purchaser at the foreclosure sale, for a master’s deed: denial of that petition; and an appeal from that denial.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POB THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. Bill for foreclosure of a mortgage: decree of foreclosure: demand to redeem and tender of payment: petition of the plaintiff, purchaser at the foreclosure sale, for a master’s deed: denial of that petition; and an appeal from that denial. The property involved in this suit was' certain real estate in. the city of Chicago, covered by a.mortgage, executed January 29th, 1880, by W. H. W. Cushman and wife to secure the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in the payment of $15,000, five' years…
1Opinion of the Court
t Justice Hablan
delivered the opinion of the court.
After reciting the facts as above set forth, he continued :
In Brine v. Insurance Company, 96 U. S. 627, it is decided— reversing the'practice which had obtained for many years in the Circuit Court of the United States'sitting in equity .in. Illinois— that the State layv giving to a mortgagor of real estate the privilege, within twelve months after a decree of foreclosure, and to his judgment creditors within three months thereafter, of redeeming the premises, is a substantial right, and constitutes a rule of property to which the circuit…
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