Illinois Kaolin Co. v. Goodman

Appellee filed a bill in the circuit court of Union county to set aside and declare null and void a certain lease and assignment thereof as a cloud upon its title to certain real estate in that county. Appellants filed an answer to the bill as amended, and after the pleadings were settled a hearing was had before the chancellor and decree entered finding, among other things, that said lease was procured by fraud and circumvention, that it had been abandoned and forfeited before its assignment to appellant Goodman, and decreeing that said lease and assignment be set aside and declared null and…