Lah v. Chicago Title Land Trust Co.

In a dispute over title to a parcel of Chicago real property, the circuit court denied the claims of Valerian Simirica because his title was fraudulent and because he was not a good-faith purchaser who lacked notice of the fraud. The court further held that the competing claimant, John Waters, should be granted title to the property despite securing it through actions that were “inequitable (at best) and more likely, unlawful,” because those actions, in a prior proceeding, harmed a third party, not Simirica, and could not be raised by Simirica as support for his claims. While we agree with…