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4 Ill. App. 225

Alexander v. Wolley

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided July 23, 1879

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1879-07-23

<p>Practice—Special master.—In appointing a special master to execute a decree, the Court should designate who said master should be; otherwise it will not appear that any one can exercise the power.</p>

Decided 1879-07-23

Pillsbury, P. J.

¶1The court below computed interest at ten per cent, upon the amount paid by the testator of the appellees, for the note and mortgage, and from this method finds there was due the sum of $2981.

¶2In this we are of the opinion the court erred. The land was charged with the payment of the mortgage debt, and the decree should have been for that amount only.

¶3The court charged of the amount so found due, the sum of $594 upon the fifty-four acre tract, and the sum of $2387 upon the land owned by appellant.

¶4There is no error in this action of the court of which appellant can complain; and the appellees having assigned no cross errors upon the record, we cannot pass upon the question whether her land should be held for the payment of more of the mortgage debt than the court decreed to be a lien upon it. From the evidence in the record, however, the court was justified in finding that the deeds to the respective tracts charged by the decree,, were delivered at the same time.

¶5The court should in the decree appointing a Special Master to execute it, have designated who said Master should be; otherwise it does not appear that any one can exercise the power.

¶6We discover no other reasons under the assignment of errors for reversing the decree.

¶7The decree will be reversed and cause remanded.

¶8Decree reversed.

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