Board of Commissioners v. Geis
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Saline District Court. Defendant in error, John Geis, who was plaintiff below, on May 5th, 1877, commenced this action in the district court of Saline county against the plaintiff in error, The Board of. Commissioners of Saline County, the defendant below, to recover on nine tax-sale certificates.
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Error from Saline District Court. Defendant in error, John Geis, who was plaintiff below, on May 5th, 1877, commenced this action in the district court of Saline county against the plaintiff in error, The Board of. Commissioners of Saline County, the defendant below, to recover on nine tax-sale certificates. He set forth in his petition nine separate causes of action; ■ but as the legal questions involved in each cause of action are the same, it will be necessary to state the facts set forth in only one of the causes of action. The first cause of action set forth substantially the following…
1Opinion of the Court
*387The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This action was commenced, prosecuted and disposed of in the trial court upon the right of the purchaser of the tax certificate, the ■ defendant in error, to recover from the county of Saline the money paid by virtue of the provisions of § 120, ch. 107, p. 1058, Gen. Stat. This is clearly shown by the allowance of interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, and the statement of counsel for defendant in error, that his client had fully brought himself within the provisions of said section. In this view of the case, the court committed…
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- Board of Commissioners of Lincoln Co. v. GeisSupreme Court of Kansas · 1879
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