Haxton v. Harris
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Franlclin District Court. Injunction, brought by Haxton to restrain Harris as county treasurer from selling six certain city lots for unpaid taxes. The Board of County Commissioners of Franklin county was joined as a co-defendant.
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Error from Franlclin District Court. Injunction, brought by Haxton to restrain Harris as county treasurer from selling six certain city lots for unpaid taxes. The Board of County Commissioners of Franklin county was joined as a co-defendant. Haxton purchased the lands from one Daniel Baldwin, the former owner, in March 1875. The taxes for the alleged non-payment of which the county treasurer had advertised the lands for sale were those assessed in and for the years 1872 and 1873. A former county treasurer in 1873 had illegally withheld the lands from tax sale, and had illegally issued a…
1Opinion of the Court
*512The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
Statement of facts. The facts in this case are briefly these: In .1872 the taxes on the lots described in the petition were not paid. Upon the record it appeared that at the sale in 1873, for non-payment of such taxes, the lots were sold to one Calvin Fisk, and the certificate of sale issued to him, ; 7 and by him indorsed. The taxes of 1873 were afterward charged up on the sale-certificate. As a matter of fact, Fisk did not buy, had no interest in the sale-certificate, and indorsed it merely as a matter of accommodation, and the issue of…
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