Archive for January 2014

A party must read the actual notice of lis pendens and may not rely upon an erroneous summary
thereof provided by a recorder of deeds, a panel in the Appellate Court’s First District has held.

A mortgagor who is properly served, who receives notices of the default, the judgment of foreclosure and the sale, who participates in the proceedings, but who waits 10 months after the default judgment before seeking to vacate same and to raise pleading defects, may not have the judgment and sale vacated even under the liberal rules of 735 ILCS 5/2-1301(e), the Illlinois Supreme Court held recently.