Taylor v. Roundtree
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Action, under sec. 29, ch. 141, R. S., to remove a cloud upon plaintiff’s alleged title to certain lands, which cloud was created by defendant’s claim of title under a tax deed executed and recorded in 1857, based upon a sale in 1854, for taxes of 1853, and a second deed executed and recorded in 1859, based upon a sale made in 1855, for taxes of 1854. The court directed a jury to be empaneled to determine the following…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Action, under sec. 29, ch. 141, R. S., to remove a cloud upon plaintiff’s alleged title to certain lands, which cloud was created by defendant’s claim of title under a tax deed executed and recorded in 1857, based upon a sale in 1854, for taxes of 1853, and a second deed executed and recorded in 1859, based upon a sale made in 1855, for taxes of 1854. The court directed a jury to be empaneled to determine the following questions, which will sufficiently show the issues raised by the pleadings: 1. Whether plaintiff was under twenty-one years…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Unquestionably the jury must have found, under the instructions of the court, and upon the issues submitted, that there was a good and valid redemption of the land. The plaintiff was a -minor when the lands were sold and tax deeds executed. This fact is abundantly established by the evidence,' and is really not seriously questioned. The court declined to instruct the jury that the various attempts to redeem the land, whether made by the administrator or guardian, at the times and in the manner detailed in the evidence, or whether made by persons acting for the plaintiff, by offering to pay…
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