Peterson v. Callister

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment quieting title to realty in plaintiff. Affirmed with costs to plaintiff.

One Bales became patentee of the subject property in 1926. Thereafter he paid no taxes. In 1932, pursuant to a San Juan County treasurer’s certificate, the property was struck off to the county for taxes amounting to $32.74, by virtue of an unacknowledged Auditor’s Tax Deed, which instrument, however, was recorded. In 1944 the county, by an unacknowledged Tax Deed, purported to sell the property to plaintiff “in consideration of payment * * of delinquent taxes * * * constituting a…