Banning v. Patterson

Mr. Justice

Orr delivered the opinion of the court:

The appellee George D. Banning, as the receiver of a State bank, by his verified creditor’s bill in equity, endeavored to have the title to certain real estate in Winnebago county declared to be in the defendant Everett G. Patterson, in order to collect a judgment against him for $4483.63, obtained by the receiver in that county September 10, 1932. Patterson had been adjudicated a bankrupt, and Sam Schreiber, the trustee in bankruptcy of his estate, intervened in the suit, asking that the title to the property involved be declared in him,…