Wood v. Speck

Epperson, C.

In 1899 Holt county instituted an action in the district court to foreclose an alleged tax lien upon the land here in controversy. The county claimed a lien for unpaid taxes assessed against the land for the years 1892 to 1897 inclusive, and alleged that there had been no prior administrative sale. The district court found the allegagations of the petition true, and decreed a sale of the land *436for the satisfaction of the taxes. Under the decree, the sheriff sold the land to the principal defendant herein, AL E. I-Tarrington, for $312. This was sufficient to pay the amount of the…