Goodman v. Carter

BARNS, Circuit Judge:

Appellant-plaintiff claims title to certain property by virtue of a tax deed issued in 1944. Defendants claim title to the same property by virtue of a quit claim deed and fee simple deeds dated in January 1946 which latter deeds made the defendants’ claims good except for the tax deed held by plaintiff.

Plaintiff filed his suit to quiet title against the defendants because of the cloud cast upon his title by the recording of the deeds to the defendants above mentioned.

Defendants answered and counter-claimed, setting up that plaintiff’s deed was void because:(1) the tax…