Legal Opinion

Brown v. Hogle

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1863PublishedCited by 20 opinions

This is a bill in chancery, filed in the Iroquois Circuit Court, by the complainants, against the defendants, to set aside certain judgments rendered and entered, in the County Court of Iroquois county, against certain lands described in the bill of complaint, and, also, to cancel two certain certificates, given at the time of the sale of said lands; one to Michael Hogle, and one to one A. G. Willard, and afterwards assigned to Hogle, by Willard.

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This is a bill in chancery, filed in the Iroquois Circuit Court, by the complainants, against the defendants, to set aside certain judgments rendered and entered, in the County Court of Iroquois county, against certain lands described in the bill of complaint, and, also, to cancel two certain certificates, given at the time of the sale of said lands; one to Michael Hogle, and one to one A. G. Willard, and afterwards assigned to Hogle, by Willard. The defendants demurred to the bill, and it was dismissed by the court.

1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.

The question presented on this record was raised on a demurrer to the bill filed by the appellants against the appellees, in the Circuit Court of Iroquois county. The scope of the bill was to set aside and discharge a judgment rendered by the County Court against certain lands delinquent for the taxes of 1860, of which appellants and one of the appellees, Chamberlain, were tenants in common, on the ground of want of jurisdiction in the court to render the judgment at the term at which it was rendered; and also, to set aside the certificates of sale granted on the purchase of the same, and the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. AllenNew York Supreme Court · 1831
  2. Salmon v. BennettSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1816
  3. Spellman v. CurteniusIllinois Supreme Court · 1851

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Cocks v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
  2. Weare v. Van MeterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1875
  3. Bender v. StewartIndiana Supreme Court · 1881
  4. Gibbs v. DaviesIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
  5. Howze v. DewSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890

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