Elmwood Properties, Inc. v. Bulls

This case involves an appeal from an order of the circuit court directing the issuance of a tax deed to the petitioner. Respondents, Rosa Lee Bulk and Clarence Roberts, Jr., appeal contending that the Revenue Act’s notice provisions (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 120, pars. 744, 747) were not complied with as to Roberts, Laighton Scott and Thomas O. Peters, Jr., a trustee of record. Respondents further argue that the petitioner did not comply with the payment of back taxes provision of the Revenue Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 120, par. 728).

The record indicates that in 1947 Mrs. Bulls became…