Orchel v. Wittbold

JUDGE SCHWARTZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a motion to strike the complaint and dismissing the suit of plaintiff in which he seeks to invoke the powers of a court of equity to enforce what plaintiff claims is a tax lien on certain vacant property. The motion was made by the State’s Attorney of Cook County who was given leave to intervene.

The complaint relates to five lots. Taxes on these lots for the year 1951 being unpaid they were offered at public auction on February 9, 1953, and no one offering to pay the amount due on the property or to…