Jocelyn v. White

Mr. Presiding Justice Freeman

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiffs in error seek in this case to procure a reversal of a decree of foreclosure. The objections to the bill of complaint are technical, and it is probable that upon demurrer some of them at least might properly have been sustained. A joint and several demurrer to the bill was filed in behalf of two of the defendants, but was overruled by the chancellor, and said defendants were ruled to answer. Failing to comply with said rule, the bill was taken as confessed as to them by reason of such failure. It nowhere appears that…