Legal Opinion

Gibson v. Rea

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided June 7, 1913No. 17,825Published

Appeal from Stanton district court.

1Per curiam

If the tax deed under which appellee claims is valid the other questions raised by the appeal become immaterial. The deed had been of record for more than five years and every reasonable presumption will be indulged in order to • sustain it. (Haynes v. Heller, 12 Kan. 381; Dodge v. Emmons, 34 Kan. 732, 9 Pac. 951; Downer v. Schmidt, 85 Kan. 513, 117 Pac. 1013; Hoffman v. Woodward, 86 Kan. 81, 119 Pac. 712.)

Applying this rule of liberal construction the amount *715for which each tract sold can be ascertained by taking a sum which at fifteen per cent interest for the exact time that elapsed between…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Dodge v. EmmonsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
  2. Haynes v. HellerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1874
  3. Downer v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911
  4. Hoffman v. WoodwardSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911
  5. Van Hall v. GoertzSupreme Court of Kansas · 1910

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