Land & Loan Co. v. Kesler
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Langlade county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action by tax-title claimant to bar former owner. Tbe foundation of plaintiff’s title was a certain tax deed executed by Oneida county, February 27, 1905, based on tbe sale of 1901. One of tbe issues litigated on tbe trial was whether or not such deed was void on its face.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Langlade county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action by tax-title claimant to bar former owner. Tbe foundation of plaintiff’s title was a certain tax deed executed by Oneida county, February 27, 1905, based on tbe sale of 1901. One of tbe issues litigated on tbe trial was whether or not such deed was void on its face. It reads in part as follows: “Whereas, tbe Land & Loan Company, assignee of T. W. Hogan, and tbe Land & Loan Company, assignee of Oneida county, has deposited in tbe office of tbe county clerk of tbe county of Oneida, in tbe state…
1Opinion of the CourtViNje, J.
Plaintiff claims (i) that there is no evidence to sustain the finding of such occupancy by the defendant within three years after the recording of the tax deed as to defeat the statute of limitations from running in its favor as to any of the three forty-acre tracts; (2) that if there is such evidence, it' is limited to only one forty-acre tract and cannot affect the other two; and (3) that the court erred in holding the tax deed void on its face.
It appears that in 1894 William Weenink, the father of the defendant, entered three contiguous forty-acre tracts as a homestead; that he continued…
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