Shelton v. Blake

It may be well to remark, in limine, that a suggestion made in the argument in regard to the question of jurisdiction, shows that there is some misapprehension in the minds of counsel in that respect. This is not, like Sawyer v. Moyer, 105 Ill. 192, and other like cases, a bill to declare lands subject to the liens of executions, leaving the title where it is when those liens shall be discharged. It is a bill by the holder of sheriff’s deeds to the property, against the holder of an adverse title, alleging that that title is colorable, merely, and that, although it bears date prior to the…