Gibbons v. Bressler

This was a bill in equity, exhibited in the Whiteside circuit court by Gibbons, against Bressler, to remove a cloud alleged to have been cast upon the title of the former to certain lands situate in that county, and described in the bill, by means of the sale thereof by the sheriff, upon a special execution issued on a judgment in a suit by foreign attachment, instituted by Bressler in that court against the estate of Gibbons, at which sale Bressler became the purchaser, and afterwards obtained a sheriff's deed, the judgment, as it is alleged, having been obtained by fraud. There was an…