Label v. Cleasby

This appeal is a contest to quiet title in certain realty between one claiming title through adverse possession who believed he was paying the taxes on the land in question, and one claiming title through purchase of a tax deed. The sole issue presented is whether the trial court erred in quieting title in the holder by adverse possession.

Label, purchaser of the tax deed, sued Cleasby to secure title to a 97.66-foot strip of land. The facts as set forth in the findings of the trial court are not in dispute. In 1913, John Anderson deeded certain realty to Cleasby, and both Anderson and Cleasby…