Excerpt from Illinois Appellate Court Unpublished Opinions, Vol. 322: First Series On May 27, 1942, plaintiff Howard R. Moore purchased the Certificate of Purchase from.the Union Trust Company, and on August 27, 1942, he surrendered the Certificate of Purchase to the master-ln-chancery and secured a deed to the premises. De fendants continued to occupy the premises. On September 10, 1942, plaintiff served defendants With a notice to vacate the property on or before thirty days from that date, and thereafter, on Sep tember 18, 1942, defendants sent plaintiff a postal money order for $50 00, purporting to be payment for one months rent, and this proffered payment the plaintiff refused to accept and returned same to defendants With a letter demanding possession of the prem ises. Plaintiff then wrote the Office of Price Administration for authority to institute a suit against defendants in Forcible Entry and Detainer, and on October 19, 1942, plaintiff commenced an action in Forcible Entry and Detainer against defendants before a Justice - of-the-peace. He prevailed in that suit and defendants appealed to the Circuit Court of St. Clair County where the case was tried by the Court, Without a Jury, and plaintiff again pre vailed. Defendants prosecuted and perfected an appeal to this Court to reverse that Judgment. On February 24, 1945, Plaintiff, as holder and owner of the master-ih-chancery's deed, personally served defendants With a certified copy of the decree entered June 2, 1941, approving the Master's Report of Sale, exhibited to them his Master's deed, and in writing, demanded possession of the property on or before March 1, 1943. On March 2, 1945, the riginal foreclosure suit, by order of Court, was redocketed, and plaintiff, by leave of Court, filed his Petition for Writ of Assistance against the defendants. A hearing was had and it does not appear from the record that any question was made upon the hearing as to plaintiff's compliance With the provisiohs of the foreclosure decree of April 18, 1941. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.