Curtis v. Whitney
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; the ease being thus: Mary Curtis brought suit under a statute of Wisconsin to have her title to a certain piece of land, which she claimed under a deed made ou a sale for taxes, established and quieted as against the defendants.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; the ease being thus: Mary Curtis brought suit under a statute of Wisconsin to have her title to a certain piece of land, which she claimed under a deed made ou a sale for taxes, established and quieted as against the defendants. The sale for taxes took place on the 11th day of May, 1865, and she received a certificate stating the sale, and that she would “be entitled to a deed of conveyance of said land in three years from that date unless sooner redeemed according to law,” by payment of the amount bid, with interest and penalties; and accordingly, on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
Did the requirement of the statute of the 10th of April, 1867, that the holder of a certificate of tax-sale should give notice to whoever might be found in possession of the land before taking a deed impair the obligation of the contract made at the sale ?
It must be conceded by all who are familiar with the vast disproportion between the value of the land and the sum for which it is usually bid off at such sales, and the frequency with which the whole proceeding is conducted to the making of the conveyance intended to pass the title without any knowledge on the part of the real owner, that…
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