Sheehy v. Hinds
Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Plaintiff. brought this action in 1876 in the district court ■for Scott county, alleging that he was the owner in fee and in possession of a certain described quarter-section of land in that county, that the defendant claimed some interest therein adverse to the plaintiff, and that such claim was unfounded, And praying judgment that defendant’s claim be determined to be unfounded, and that the defendant be barred of and enjoined from setting up any claim thereto, and that…
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- Plaintiff. brought this action in 1876 in the district court ■for Scott county, alleging that he was the owner in fee and in possession of a certain described quarter-section of land in that county, that the defendant claimed some interest therein adverse to the plaintiff, and that such claim was unfounded, And praying judgment that defendant’s claim be determined to be unfounded, and that the defendant be barred of and enjoined from setting up any claim thereto, and that plaintiff’s title and possession be quieted. The defendant answered, pleading title in fee in himself by virtue of…
1Opinion of the Court
Cornell, 3.
Defendant claims title to the premises in controversy as the owner in fee under certain tax deeds, set forth in his answer, the validity of which he insists cannot be impeached or questioned, because more than three years have elapsed since the tax sales occurred in pursuance of which the deeds were executed. It appears that the premises were first sold in separate parcels, of 40 acres each, for taxes levied for the year 1867, on the fourth day of June, 1868; that certificates of sale were then given to the defendant as purchaser, who afterwards, on the eighth day of May, 1876,…
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