Loewenthal v. Elkins

Appellee filed his petition in the circuit court of Cook county, against appellant and others, to restore the records of deeds in the chain of title of lots 1, 4, 18 and 19, in block 5, in the first division of the village of Riverside, in said county, and other lots, (which records he alleges had been destroyed by fire,) and to establish title to said lots in him. Appellant answered the petition as to the above described lots, disputing the ownership of appellee and claiming title in himself. Other defendants, to whom deeds of conveyance of said lots, or some part thereof, were alleged to…