Mahaska County v. Bennett

The relief sought by plaintiff is that title to the north thirty-two and fifty-five one-hundredths acres of land in N. W. % S. W. % of section 7, township 75, range 14, be quieted in it, and that a certain tax deed executed to defendant be set aside. The defendant denied that plaintiff had title, and by way of cross-petition set up a tax title, and prayed that it be quieted in her against the adverse claims of the county. Upon hearing, decree was entered declaring plaintiff the absolute owner of the premises and finding defendant’s tax deed void. One Gilbert Murphy was owner of the land on…