Crandall v. Sorg

Paul J. Sorg, appellee, filed a bill in the Cook circuit court for a decree declaring certain conveyances and claims for mechanics’ liens to be clouds on his title to the south two acres of block 16, in canal.trustees’ subdivision of section 33, township 39, north, range 14, east, at the corner of Thirty-fourth and State streets, in Chicago, on which is situated a building known as the Mecca Hotel. The bill asked the cancellation of the claims for mechanics’ liens on the ground the complainant in the bill was the owner of the fee of the premises and had leased same for the term of ninety-nine…