Hart v. Randolph

The substance of the bill of complaint of Vienna Hart, plaintiff in error, is, that she is the widow of Thomas Hart, who died on the 25th day of May, 1881; that said Thomas was the owner in fee simple of lots 5 and 6, in block 176, in the city of Mattoon, Illinois, and on the 25th day of January, 1869, mortgaged them to one Samuel Neff, to secure a promissory note for $1000, given for borrowed money; that after-wards the said Thomas made and delivered to the said Neff a quit-claim deed for the premises, bearing date May 17, 1869, which deed was in fact a mortgage to secure said loan, and that…