Frazier v. Douglass

S. A. Frazier obtained a tax deed upon a quarter-section of land in Jefferson County which he placed on record on November 17, 1890. On November 12, 1892, before the two-years’ statute of limitations had run against him, he filed in the District Court a petition in ejectment, asking a re*810covery of the land from John C. Douglass, together with rents and damages. A summons was promptly issued, which the sheriff made an attempt to serve on November 17, 1892 ; but it appears that the paper served upon Douglass was not a strict copy of the summons. The copy had written therein the year “ 1882,”…