Clark v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeals from Grundy District Court. Monday, December 8. These are actions in chancery to quiet plaintiffs’ titles to certain different tracts of land, and to set aside tax sales and deeds, whereon defendant bases a claim of title thereto. The points of law involved in each, case and the facts are the same, and fully appear in the opinion. There was a decree in each case for plaintiff; the defendant appeals in each.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
1. Tax sale AUD DEED. The facts and law of both cases being the same, they have been submitted together, and our decision may be properly announced in one opinion. And being chancery actions tried by the first method in the court below, they are retried in this court de novo. There are but two objections to defendant’s tax titles made and relied'upon by plaintiffs, namely : 1. The lands were sold in quantities not authorized by law; 2. The sale was at a time not appointed or permitted by law; other objections are stated in plaintiffs’ petitions but these are the only ones urged…
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