VanZanten v. VanZanten

Nicholas VanZanten filed his bill in the circuit court of Cook county to remove a cloud upon his title to twenty-four acres of land in that county and to quiet his title. He died before the hearing and the suit was revived in the name of his widow and children. Upon a hearing, in open court the bill was dismissed for want of equity, and this writ of error has been sued out to reverse the decree.

John VanZanten, Sr., was a truck farmer and owned eighty-six acres of land near the village of South Holland, in Cook county. He had a wife, three sons, (Jacob, Nicholas and John, Jr.,) and two…