Young v. Madden

This is an appeal from an order of the county court directing the county clerk to issue a tax deed to certain real estate to the petitioner, John Organ, pursuant to section 266 of the Revenue Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 120, par. 747.) Appellants had filed objections to the petition of Organ in the county court and take this appeal, claiming an interest in the subject real estate.

The controversy involves the subsurface coal and coal rights underlying certain surface land now owned by the objectors, Florence Madden and Frank Genetti. The coal and coal rights were purportedly severed by…