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ELIASON v. WILBORN

No. 347.

281 U.S. 457 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 382

74 L.Ed. 962

ELIASON ET AL. v. WILBORN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Matthias Concannon, with whom Mr. Franklin E. Vaughan was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Floyd E. Thompson, with whom Mr. Henry Jackson Darby was on the brief, for appellees. Messrs. J. Scott Matthews and Nathan W. MacChesney also appeared for the appellees.

Mr. J. Scott Matthews, by special leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae, on behalf of Clayton F. Smith, Registrar of Titles of Cook County, Illinois.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellants had been holders of a certificate of title under the Torrens Act of Illinois. As a result of negotiations they entrusted this certificate to one Napletone, who is alleged to have presented it together with a forged conveyance to himself to the Registrar and by those means to have obtained from the Registrar a new certificate of title in Napletone, on May...

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