Gage v. Hampton

This was a bill in equity, brought by Thaddeus Hampton, in the Superior Court of Cook county, against Henry H. Gage, to set aside three tax deeds as- clouds on the title to lots 36 and 37, in the west half of block 1, in a certain subdivision of a certain eighty-acre tract of land in Cook" county. The first tax deed named in the bill was executed on the 10th day of February, 1877, the second was executed on February 15, 1881, and the third on the 18th of February, 1881. The defendant, Gage, put in an answer to the bill, in which he denied complainant’s title and possession, and set up title…