McFadden v. Worthington

The object of the bill filed in this cause was to quiet complainant’s title to certain lots in Morrison, in Whiteside county, or rather to remove a cloud upon it, caused by a deed executed to the defendant, Higby.

The court dismissed the bill at complainant’s costs, and he brings the record here by writ of error, assigning this as error, and makes this single point:

“Ho judgment is a lien on real estate embraced in an unrecorded deed, previously conveyed by a judgment debtor, in actions of case, trespass, trover, replevin, detinue and ejectment, or for costs growing out of the trial of property…