Hoffman v. Peterson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Joeh QoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Action for trespass in wrongfully cutting timber on certain vacant and unoccupied land in Outagamie county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Joeh QoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Action for trespass in wrongfully cutting timber on certain vacant and unoccupied land in Outagamie county. The answer and counterclaim set up, and the court finds, that plaintiff^ title is based on a tax deed issued in 1896 upon the sale •of 1893 for unpaid taxes of 1892. The property belonged to Adolph Johnson in his lifetime, who died in 1887, leaving Albert Johnson, a minor, his sole heir at law. The latter attained his majority on April 21, 1901, and March 8, 1902, within one year thereafter,…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Plaintiff denies the right of a minor to- redeem from a tax sale after the deed has been issued. Sec. 1165, Stats. 1898, provides:
“The owner or occupant of any land sold for taxes or other person may, at any time within three years from the date of the certificate of sale, redeem the same or any part thereof.”
Sec. 1166, Stats. 1898, provides:
“The lands of minors or any interest they may have in-lands sold for taxes may be redeemed at any time before such, minors come of age and during one year thereafter.”
It is difficult to discover in these statutes any such limitation as that for which…
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