Adams v. Leyba

McGHEE, Justice.

Thé plaintiff (appellee) obtained a decree below cancelling a tax deed to lands which he had purchased in Catron County from Robert Wood and wife.

The property was purchased in 1946 and Wood, the former owner, agreed to pay the 1946 taxes, but he only paid them for the first half of that year and at the regular tax sale on January 23, 1948, the lands were sold for the unpaid taxes for the last half of 1946. On January 23, 1948, the defendant (appellant) purchased the tax sale certificate and on January 23, 1950, secured a tax deed to the,land. On January 11, 1950, the treasurer…