Village of Brooklyn v. Orthwein

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of St. Glair county, rendered in pursuance of the remanding order of this court in the case of Orthwein v. Thomas et al. 127 Ill. 554. After the cause was re-instated in the circuit court, Orthwein filed a supplemental cross-bill, setting up that since the filing of his original cross-bill, in which he alleged that the undivided two thirty-fifths of the premises in controversy were still owned by the heirs of Susannah Osborn, deceased, or others claiming under them, he had, by purchase, become the owner of said interests, thereby becoming…