Havel v. Decatur County Abstract Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

The plaintiff in error brought suit in the district court of Rawlins county to quiet her title to a tract of land which she claimed to own in that county. The defendant abstract'.company answered denying *337the plaintiff’s title, and set up a mortgage on the land and asked a foreclosure thereof.

At the trial it developed that the plaintiff’s title rested upon a tax deed issued to C. F. McGrew more than five years before the commencement of the suit. The court adjudged the tax deed void, allowed the plaintiff a first lien for taxes paid and…