Sawyer v. Campbell

This was a bill filed in July, 1881, in the Cook circuit court, by Philetus Sawyer and George F. Harding, to quiet the title or remove clouds from the title to lot 2, in the subdivision of the east half of the south-west quarter of section 15, town 38, range 14, in Cook county. Possession of the lot, seizin thereof in fee, and freedom of the premises from incumbrances, were alleged in the bill.

Ambrose Campbell, appellee herein, who was one of the defendants to the bill, claimed that he was the owner in fee of the land, under and by virtue of certain sales made in conformity with the powers…