Blackwood v. Van Vleit

This is an action of ejectment in which plaintiff claims under the patent title, and defendant relies upon a tax deed given in 1856, on a sale of the lands by the county treasurer for delinquent taxes of 1854. The questions on this record arise upon the effect of this deed, and upon the right to contest its validity after it has been on record for five years.

The statute which was in force when the sale was made (Comp. L., 1857, § 871) declared the deed “prima facie evidence of the regularity of all the proceedings from the valuation of the land by the assessors to the date of the deed…