State Finance Co. v. Mather
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Fisk, J. Action by the State Finance Company against A. C. Mather. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. A description is sufficient that is generally understood to refer to the land in question.
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Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Fisk, J. Action by the State Finance Company against A. C. Mather. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. A description is sufficient that is generally understood to refer to the land in question. Gilfillan v. Hobart, 24 N. W. 342; Power v. Bowdle, 3 N. D. 107, 64 N. W. 404; Doherty v. Real Estate Title Ins. & Trust Co., 89 N. W. 853; Kampfer v. East Side Syndicate 104 N. W. 290. The purchase at a tax sale is a contract, and no subsequent statute can import new terms into it, or add to those before expressed. Morgan v. Commissioners, 27…
1Opinion of the CourtEngerud, J.
This is an action in statutory form to determine adverse claims to two tracts of city property. The defendant, Mather, sets up in his answer numerous tax sale certificates under which he claims to have valid liens upon each of the tracts described in the complaint. The trial court held all the tax sale certificates invalid, and judgment was entered to that effect. The defendant appealed from the judgment, and demands a trial de novo.
One of the tracts involved is a piece of ground 22 feet wide extending across two platted lots. In the several tax sale certificates which defendant asserts cover…
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