Emmons v. Moore

This was a bill in equity, brought by Catharine Moore, to set aside and cancel, as a cloud upon her title to a tract of land near Chicago, consisting of one hundred acres, a levy under a writ of attachment at the suit of Scoville against Alex. McClurg, a judgment, sheriff’s deed, and also a deed from the purchaser at the sheriff’s sale to Alfred W. Davidson, and a deed from him to Martha E. Emmons.

The defendants to the bill put in their answers, and after replications were filed, the cause proceeded to a hearing on the evidence, and- a decree was rendered as prayed for in the bill, to reverse…