Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Saul

This is an action in the nature of ejectment, under § 265, Mills’ Annotated Code, and is similar in its main features to a number of other cases decided at this term of the court, in each of ■which the same company appears as appellant, each case involving the question of the validity of tax titles to land located in Washington county. Complaint is in usual form, and the answer, after putting in issue the allegations of the complaint, purports to plead title in defendant by virtue of the payment for seven successive years of all taxes assessed upon the land under claim and color of title in…