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ECHOLS v. OLSEN

No. 47636.

63 Ill.2d 270 (1976)

347 N.E.2d 720

VERNAL ECHOLS, Appellee, v. SIDNEY OLSEN, Recorder of Deeds and ex officio Registrar of Titles, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Sheldon Gardner, Deputy State's Attorney, and Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellant.

John Elson, of Northwestern Legal Assistance Clinic, of Chicago (Sara Vannucci, of counsel), for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

What the facts are in this case is not in dispute. Vernal Echols, the petitioner, and her husband Valentine were joint owners of a lot in Chicago that was registered under "An Act concerning land titles" (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 30, pars. 45-148) (hereafter cited as the Torrens Act). On September 29, 1966, the circuit court of Cook County entered a decree of divorce in a suit that...

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