Corbin v. De Wolf
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cedar District Court. Action to recover a quarter section (160 acres) of land. The plaintiff claims title under a tax deed; the defendant sets up the fee simple title in himself. The other facts in the case will appear in the opinion. Judgment in the District Court for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
tax sale : and in par-89 expiained. To support his right to recover,, plaintiff offered in evidence a tax deed which conveyed several parcels of land, the tract in suit among them, The deed recites that “each of the above described tracts having been sold separately for the sum of money named, and in each case the whole of the lands on which taxes wére due as aforesaid, which was the least quantity bid for.” To the introduction of the deed in evidence defendant objected, because it ap peared therefrom that the whole tract was sold together for the taxes due thereon, claiming that no more than…
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