Shuck v. Guarantee Bank & Trust Co.

This case presents the question of the effect of section 255 of the Revenue Act, herein called the Reconveyance Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 120, par. 736) upon tax ■deeds issued pursuant to tax sales held subsequent to .September 1, 1951, and prior to the 1959 amendment to said act.

The real estate involved was duly sold for nonpayment of 1952 general real-estate taxes on October 22, 1953, to Interstate Bond Company, which thereafter paid the 1953, 1954 and 1955 real-estate taxes and served the notices required by law. On May 22, 1956, the county court of Rock Island County entered an…