Ely v. Brown
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed originally by Edwin Lee Brown as owner of lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 1 in Jennings’ subdivision of part of Jennings & Moffett’s subdivision of the ’south 60 acres of the east half of the south-west quarter of section 10, township 38, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county, Illinois, to remove as clouds from his title certain tax deeds,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed originally by Edwin Lee Brown as owner of lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 1 in Jennings’ subdivision of part of Jennings & Moffett’s subdivision of the ’south 60 acres of the east half of the south-west quarter of section 10, township 38, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county, Illinois, to remove as clouds from his title certain tax deeds, and deeds based upon such tax deeds, held by the defendants below, the appellants in this court, and also to remove and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First — The first question relates to the ownership by appellees of the strip or strips of ground claimed by the appellants and described in the tax deeds set forth in the statement preceding this opinion. This being a bill by the appellees to remove clouds from their title, they aver, and must prove, that they are the owners of the property from which it is sought to remove the clouds alleged to exist. The appellants insist that the appellees do not own the strip or strips claimed by them, and that the appellees never had any title to such strip or strips. The piece of ground in dispute…
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