Clark v. Laughlin

Citations

• 62 Ill. 278

Syllabus

<p>1. Chancery—error in master's report. Where a party to a suit in chancery fails to except to the master’s report of the sum due him, he will be precluding from objecting in this court that there was a greater sum due him than was allowed.</p> <p>2. Redemption erom mortgage — tax tide. Where a party made a mortgage of land by a deed absolute on its face, and the mortgagee gave a bond obligating himself to convey ,back the premises on payment of the debt, free from all incumbrance, by deed with full covenants of warranty, and afterward acquired a tax title to the premises, the court, on bill to redeem, allowed the mortgagee the sum advanced for the tax title, and required him to convey the whole title, which the mortgagee assigned for error : Held, that under the terms of his bond there was no error.</p>