Jojan Corp. v. Kusper

The plaintiff, Jojan Corporation, brought this action in the circuit court of Cook County challenging the constitutionality of section 235a of the Revenue Act of 1939, as amended, known as the Scavenger Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 120, par. 716a).

The Scavenger Act was enacted in 1939 to clean up a hopeless tax delinquency situation and restore these delinquent properties to a tax revenue-producing status. (Dupuy v. Morse (1949), 337 Ill. App. 1, 6, 85 N.E.2d 187; In re Application of Rosewell (1981), 93 Ill. App. 3d 1106, 1108, 454 N.E.2d 997.) The Scavenger Act provides for a judgment for…