Legal Opinion

Russell v. Brown

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1866PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Writ of Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. On the 20th day of October, 1845, William H. Brown and H. Griswold Hubbard, as executors of Elijah 1L Hubbard, deceased, instituted proceedings in the County Court of Cook county to foreclose a mortgage by scire facias, the mortgage having heen executed to the testator in his life-time, on the 21st day of June, 1837, by John B. F. Russell and Cornelia Russell, his wife, to secure the payment of certain sums of money, as…

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Writ of Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. On the 20th day of October, 1845, William H. Brown and H. Griswold Hubbard, as executors of Elijah 1L Hubbard, deceased, instituted proceedings in the County Court of Cook county to foreclose a mortgage by scire facias, the mortgage having heen executed to the testator in his life-time, on the 21st day of June, 1837, by John B. F. Russell and Cornelia Russell, his wife, to secure the payment of certain sums of money, as described in the following condition thereto : “ Whereas, the said Russell is justly indebted to the said Hubbard in certain…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence

On the 21st of June, 1837, John B. F. Russell and Cornelia, his wife, the present plaintiff in error, executed a mortgage to Elijah K. Hubbard, to secure the payment of various notes and drafts upon some of which Russell was primarily, and upon others secondarily, responsible. The notes and drafts were six in number, and amounted in all to over five thousand dollars. At the November Term, 1845, of the Circuit Court of Cook county, the executors of Hubbard sued out a scire facias on this mortgage, and obtained a judgment for eighteen hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-one cents. From…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Choteau v. JonesIllinois Supreme Court · 1849
  2. McCumber v. GilmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1852

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Russell v. Baptist Theological UnionIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Malsberger v. ParsonsSuperior Court of Delaware · 1910
  3. Alvis v. MorrisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
  4. Camp v. SmallIllinois Supreme Court · 1867
  5. Richardson v. MillsIllinois Supreme Court · 1873

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