Goodrich v. Beaman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Crwndy District Court. Wednesday, December 10. This is an action for the recovery of real property, the northwest quarter of the south-east quarter of section thirty-three, township eighty-six, range seventeen. The plaintiff derives title by deed from the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company of date May 20, 1871, and under the act of congress and the acts of the State legislature, granting lands for railroad purposes.
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Appeal from Crwndy District Court. Wednesday, December 10. This is an action for the recovery of real property, the northwest quarter of the south-east quarter of section thirty-three, township eighty-six, range seventeen. The plaintiff derives title by deed from the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company of date May 20, 1871, and under the act of congress and the acts of the State legislature, granting lands for railroad purposes. The defendant derives title through a tax deed made by the treasurer of Grundy county, of date October 29, 1867, under a sale for the delinquent taxes of…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The sufficiency and regularity of the plaintiff’s title is not questioned by the defendant, and, therefore, we deem it unnecessary to set out here and again the substance even of the acts of congress and of the State legislature^ whereby such title is derived. But the defendant claims that his tax title is paramount to the plaintiff’s title. Whether the defendant’s tax title is paramount to the plaintiff’s title depends primarily upon the correct solution of the question as to the liability of the land to taxation for the years 1862 and 1863, or, at least, for one of those years. For, if the…
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