Glos v. Randolph

This is a bill filed to set aside a tax deed as a cloud upon the title. The decree below was in favor of the complainant. The tax deed is invalid, for the reason that the clerk did not make and enter upon the record the certificate required by section 194 of the Revenue act. (Starr & Cur. Ann. Stat. page 2093.) Such certificate is the process on which real property shall be sold for taxes, and there being no process, under which the officer making the sale was authorized to act, the sale was void. (Ames v. Sankey, 128 Ill. 523; Ogden v. Bemis, 125 id. 105.)

The proof shows that the property…