Bergesen v. Clauss

Appellants, hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, brought an action in the superior court of Cook County to have a certain deed declared a forgery and removed as a cloud upon the title to certain real estate. The original plaintiff died during the pendency of the lower court proceedings and his heirs, as well as the administrator of his estate, were substituted as parties plaintiff.

The defendants are the grantees in the deed alleged to be forged.

The proceedings below were concluded by the allowance of a motion of the defendants for summary judgment. The facts, for purposes of this opinion,…