Gage v. McLaughlin

This was a bill or petition filed by Neil McLaughlin, ostensibly under the act of April 19, 1872, known as the Burnt Becords act. Petitioner claimed title to the lands described in the bill, being several lots in a certain subdivision of a tract of land in Cook county, by foreclosure of a .mortgage made by one Andrew Cook to petitioner June 1, 1872, and a master’s deed, under the decree of foreclosure and sale, executed August 3, 1873. The petition made parties the widow and heirs of Andrew Cook, who died July 11, 1872, before said decree of foreclosure, and also Asahel Gage, who is alleged…