Betser v. Rankin

Citations

• 77 Ill. 289

Syllabus

<p>1. Purchaser—when protected against equitable title. Where the United States, after the sale of a tract of land and the giving of a receipt of the receiver for the purchase money, conveyed the same land with others to the State, and the State to the county in which the same was located, and the county sold and conveyed the same for a valuable consideration paid, after -which the same passed through several bona fide purchasers, who had no notice whatever of the equitable rights of the party claiming under the purchase from the government, it was held, that the equitable title coúld not prevail over the junior equity which was united with the legal title.</p> <p>2. Notice—entry on tax books in county clerk's office. The entry of lands sold by the United States upon the land book in the county clerk’s ¡office, being required only for the purposes of taxation, affords no confetructive notice of the facts appearing therefrom to subsequent purchasers.</p>