Armstrong v. Johnson

This plaintiff contracted with the Union Pacific Railway Company, for the purchase of the land in controversy, and afterwards, in 1894, made his final payments and obtained the deed. While he held the land under contract, he paid two years’ taxes thereon; but after 1894 he paid no taxes, and, never having seen the land, gave no attention to it until one of the attorneys now acting for him in the case called his attention to it some 16 or 17 years after he had received the deed. In March, 1911, he began this action in the district court for Deuel county to redeem from tax sales and quiet his…