Corning Town Co. v. Davis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Adams District Court. These cases, prosecuted in chancery, involve substantially the same facts, and the. same questions of law arise in each. The Corning Town Co. seeks to set aside a tax title held by defendant, to the e se J of se J- section 34, T. 72, R. 34, and the other plaintiff, Loomis, upon the same state of facts, seeks to avoid a like title upon the west half of the forty acre tract of which the land claimed hy plaintiff in the other case is a part.
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Appeal from Adams District Court. These cases, prosecuted in chancery, involve substantially the same facts, and the. same questions of law arise in each. The Corning Town Co. seeks to set aside a tax title held by defendant, to the e se J of se J- section 34, T. 72, R. 34, and the other plaintiff, Loomis, upon the same state of facts, seeks to avoid a like title upon the west half of the forty acre tract of which the land claimed hy plaintiff in the other case is a part. The defendant claims the land under a tax sale, made October 20, 1865, for the delinquent taxes of 1863 and 1864, and a…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
An opinion of this court was announced in December, 1872, affirming the judgments of the District Court. A rehearing was allowed upon a petition of defendant, and-thereupon a majority of the court, as then constituted, reached a conclusion differing from the first decision, and an opinion was filed reversing the decision of the court below. Thereupon plaintiffs filed their petition for a rehearing and the causes have been again argued and submitted.
The questions raised in the cases touching the sufficiency and regularity of the sale and proceedings prior thereto, upon *624■which defendant’s tax…
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