Brandies v. Cochrane
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was a bill in equity, filed by the appellants, the object and prayer of which was to quiet their title to the leal ' estate described, situated in Chicago, as against the adverse claims of the appellees. The question in the case was whether the appellants had the legal title to the premises in controversy.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was a bill in equity, filed by the appellants, the object and prayer of which was to quiet their title to the leal ' estate described, situated in Chicago, as against the adverse claims of the appellees. The question in the case was whether the appellants had the legal title to the premises in controversy. The facts necessary to ^determination were as follows: In March, 1866, the complainants below, now the appellants, recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
It is manifest that it is vital to the appellants’ case,- that they should maintain and establish a judgment lien upon the estate of Robert Forsythe, in the premises in controversy, at the date of the recovery of the judgment in 1866 ; because the discharge in bankruptcy of Forsythe, in 1868, released him from all personal liability on. account of the judgment, so that the subsequent levy of an execution in 1870 could have no effect except to enforce a lien subsisting at the time of the adjudication in bankruptcy.
It is accordingly…
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