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  "id": 5373052,
  "name": "M. H. Fitzsimmons, Appellee, v. William Cowan et al. Fred Siebel, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Fitzsimmons v. Cowan",
  "decision_date": "1914-04-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen No. 5,878",
  "first_page": "358",
  "last_page": "359",
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      "cite": "186 Ill. App. 358"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "M. H. Fitzsimmons, Appellee, v. William Cowan et al. Fred Siebel, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dibell\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "M. A. Carmack and A. F. W. Siebel, for appellant Fred Siebel.",
      "V. S. Lumley, Charles T. Allen and R. D. Donovan, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "M. H. Fitzsimmons, Appellee, v. William Cowan et al. Fred Siebel, Appellant.\nGen No. 5,878.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of McHenry county; the Hon. Chables H. Donnelly, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 15, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nBill by M. H. Fitzsimmons against William Cowan and Maggie Cowan, his wife, the McHenry Comity State Bank and Fred Siebel to forclose a trust deed securing a promissory note for $2,500. The note and mortgage were executed by the Cowans to J. D. Donovan upon a lot in the city of Woodstock, and the note became the property of the complainant. Subsequent to the execution of the trust deed, William Cowan executed two promissory notes for $1,000 each to the Bank and gave the Bank a second trust deed on the same real estate to secure the same. This trust deed was not executed by Cowan\u2019s wife. After the second trust deed was recorded, Fred Siebel obtained a judgment against the Cowans and had an execution within one year. The Bank was not served and Donovan was not made a party to the bill. A decree was entered finding the amount due to complainant and directed a sale of the premises and the payment of said sum to complainant from the proceeds of the sale. The decree further directed that the master, out of the interest of William Cowan in the remainder of said proceeds, pay the Bank the sum found due it \u201cif he can determine his interest\u201d and bring the balance into court. The master made his report of sale and of payment to complainant in full and that he had in his hands $1,107.96, the balance of the proceeds of said sale, awaiting further order for distribution, as he was unable to ascertain William Cowan\u2019s interest in the real estate. Thereafter the court entered an order that the balance of the proceeds be paid by the master to the Bank \u201cand that it be accepted by the Bank subject to the inchoate right of dower which the defendant Maggie Cowan, may or might have in and to said sum.\u201d From the last order, Fred Siebel appeals.\nM. A. Carmack and A. F. W. Siebel, for appellant Fred Siebel.\nV. S. Lumley, Charles T. Allen and R. D. Donovan, for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Mortgages, \u00a7 654 \u2014When validity of original decree cannot be questioned on appeal from, subsequent order. On appeal from a decree disposing of the proceeds of a foreclosure sale, the original decree cannot be attacked as erroneous because the trustee who held title to the land was not made a party.\n2. Mortgages, \u00a7 647 \u2014when mortgagor\u2019s interest in the land should be determined before order for distribution of surplus. In a foreclosure proceeding where there was a residue of the proceeds of the sale after payment of sum decreed to the complainant and there were other parties to the suit who claimed such residue, held that the residue could not be ordered paid to anyone of such claimants without first determining by a supplemental decree the interest the mortgagors had in the land, where such determination was necessary to make proper distribution and there was no averment or proof of their interest in the foreclosure proceedings.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0358-01",
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