Fickel v. Webb
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
1Opinion of the Court
EAGLETON, C.
John Traugott Mirtschin, German born, homesteaded in Beaver county and lived there on the property in a small dugout, or hovel, for some twenty-odd years. He permitted Ms taxes to go unpaid, and when urged by Ms neighbors to pay them to protect his title insisted that he had his title from the government and Ms land could not be taken from him. He also insisted that, inasmuch as a highway was run across his property, the property was not liable for taxes, for that was the law in Germany. A. Menefee Burnam bought the 1912 tax certificates on his farm, and on February 4, 1916,…
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