Village of Dolton v. Dolton

The Branch Appellate Court for the First District entered a judgment dismissing the ■ appeal prosecuted by the appellants from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, and the correctness of that judgment is questioned by this appeal.

Appellee, George A. Dolton, by his amended bill filed in the circuit court against the appellants, the village of Dolton, the president of its board of trustees and a justice of the peace, alleged that he was the owner in fee simple of certain real estate in said village conveyed to him by warranty deed December 13,1872, of which he had been in exclusive…