Shepard v. Brewer

This was a bill in equity, brought by Shepard, the appellant, to foreclose two mortgages upon a lot in the village of Leland, in LaSalle county, executed by William H. Blair and Sarah Blair, his wife, one on the 12th of February, 1858, to James L. Chapman & Co., to secure the payment of $81; the other on the 20th of January, 1860, to William O. Craig, to secure the payment of $112. Shepard is the assignee of the mortgages. The mortgaged premises were of the value of about $400, as the proof shows. The homestead right was not released in either mortgage. That right is set up in resistance of…