Shapiro v. Hruby

By this appeal; Louis Shapiro, appellant, seeks to review orders of the county court of Cook County directing the issuance of a tax deed to appellee, Dora Hruby, and dismissing his subsequent petitions to set that deed aside.

The property in question is an unimproved city lot, title to which was registered on August 15, 1929, under the Torrens System, in John Manousakis, who lived at no Marion Street in Oak Park. He paid taxes on the lot until his return to Greece in 1931 and continued to live in that country until his death some ten years later. Surviving him were his wife, Anna, a brother…