Rucker v. Dooley

The object of the bill in this case was to quiet the title to a certain tract of land in Cook county, both parties claiming through the same source. The defendants, Weston, Davis and Hambleton, had enclosed the land, under their chain of title, in 1867, before the bill was filed and before the defendant Rucker had received the sheriff’s deed, on which his claim was based, that deed hearing date January 6th, 1868.

It appears the land was sold by the sheriff of Cook county, •on a judgment rendered in the Municipal Court of Chicago, in favor of one Murphy against John K. Boyer and Peter Pruyne,…