Schmitt v. King

This appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of McHenry county denying the prayer of the bill of Anton M. Schmitt praying that the title to a triangular tract of land containing 9.49 acres, located in the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 13, township 45, north, range 8, east of the third principal meridian, in the county of McHenry, be quieted and held to be in him, and allowing the prayer of the cross-bill of Joseph King, appellee, and holding that he is the owner of said tract of land.

In 1845 there was issued by the United States government…