Southmoor Bank & Trust Co. v. Willis

This appeal brings before us the question of the validity of a tax deed issued pursuant to an order of the county court of Cook County, entered in the county collector’s application for judgment of sale of certain lots and lands returned delinquent for nonpayment of general taxes for the year 1952, under the 1951 amendment to section 266 of the Revenue Act of 1939. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 120, par. 747.

On June 27, 1956, the Interstate Bond Company filed a petition alleging the purchase of the parcel of real estate in question at such sale; that the parcel had not been redeemed and the…