Gage. v. Kaufman
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. In equity. The defendant demurred to the bill. The’demurrer being overruled he elected to stand on the demurrer, and a decree was entered for the complainant, from which’the defendant appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This was a bill in equity by a citizen of Illinois against a citizen of New Jersey to remove a cloud upon the title of lands in Chicago of the value of $10,000.
The bill alleged that the plaintiff was seized in fee simple of the lands; that the defendant claimed title to them under two-pretended tax deeds to him from the county clerk, recorded in the office of the county recorder, (copies of the records of which were set forth in the bill, showing deeds in the form prescribed by § 221 of c. 120 of tbe Revised Statutes of Illinois of 1874); and further alleged that there was no advertisement of…
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