Elliott v. Johnson

In separate appeals, which we have consolidated for opinion, plaintiff, Virginia J. Elliott, seeks reversal of judgments entered in the circuit court in favor of defendant Dean L. Johnson, who acquired plaintiff’s real estate by a tax deed.

Circuit court cause No. 86 CH 5 was a suit to quiet title to her property brought by plaintiff in which she sought to have a tax deed issued to defendant by the county clerk of Carroll County to be declared void. Defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint was granted as an improper collateral attack upon the judgment directing issuance of the tax…