Glos v. Perkins
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal by Jacob Glos, defendant below, from a decree rendered against him on a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, by Emory B. Perkins, to remove as clouds five several tax deeds to lot 34 of block 47, Washington Heights subdivision, in the village of Morgan Park, Cook county, Illinois.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal by Jacob Glos, defendant below, from a decree rendered against him on a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, by Emory B. Perkins, to remove as clouds five several tax deeds to lot 34 of block 47, Washington Heights subdivision, in the village of Morgan Park, Cook county, Illinois. The bill alleges that complainant is the owner of the lot, which is vacant and unoccupied; that defendant, Glos, claims title thereto through certain tax deeds, describing them; that said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
Under the bill and answer the burthen of proof was upon the complainant to establish two facts in order to entitle him to maintain his bill: First, that he was the owner of the premises; and second, that they were vacant and unoccupied. (Glos v. Randolph, 133 Ill. 197.) Even if it should be conceded, for the purposes of this opinion, that the deed sufficiently established the former fact, — that is, that he had title to the premises, — there is an entire absence of proof in the record that they were vacant and unoccupied. This is not denied, except upon the unwarranted theory that by proving…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Glos v. RandolphIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
3Cited by2 opinions
- Glos v. KempIllinois Supreme Court · 1901
- Harty v. GlosIllinois Supreme Court · 1916