Simons v. Drake

This is an appeal taken to reverse a decree in chancery entered in the superior court of Cook county, declaring certain conveyances to be clouds upon the title of the appellee to two lots in school trustees’ subdivision of section 16, township 38, north, range 4, east, in Cook county, and ordering such conveyances to be canceled.

It appeared appellee, complainant below, on September 14, 1877, under a warranty deed purporting to convey the lots to her, entered into actual, open, adverse and exclusive possession of the premises, and from thenceforth to and at the date of the filing of the bill,…