Smith v. Gage

Blodgett, D. J.

This bill was originally filed by tbe complainant in the state court, under what is termed the “Burnt Becords Act,” for the purpose of restoring the complainant’s title; the allegations being in substance that the complainant had a title in fee to the lot mentioned in the bill, deducible by a chain of conveyances from the United States to herself, all of which were of record in the recorder’s office of Cook county, Illinois, and that by the destruction of the records of the county in the great fire of October, 1871, all these recorded evidences of title had been destroyed, and…