Templeton v. Horne

Citations

• 82 Ill. 491

Syllabus

<p>1. Impairing obligation op contract— changing remedy. Remedies which the law affords to enforce contracts constitute no part of the contracts themselves, and any mere change thereof by the legislature that does not amount to a deprivation of all effectual remedy, is in no. just sense impairing the obligation of the contracts.</p> <p>3. Same—redemption from sale—as to prior contracts. Where a contract, under which parties' became entitled to enforce a mechanic’s lien, was made, and proceedings to establish the lien were instituted, hut no decree pronounced before the act of 1869 allowing redemption from sales under such proceedings was in force, and after that act took effect a decree was rendered declaring the lien, and ordering a sale of the property, the decree properly conformed to the provisions of that act, and provided for a redemption from any sale made thereunder.</p>