of Griffith v. Carter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Sioux District Court. Tuts is an action in equity which involves the title to three hundred and twenty acres of land in Sioux county. There was a decree in the district court for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock, Oh. J.
ána'dced™ slatute ol limitations: possession of owner- what is sufficient. I. The land in controversy was sold by the treasurer of the county on the 2d day of October, 1871, to Henry Elkenbnrg, for the delinquent taxes of 1870. Elkenburg afterwards died, and the certi- , 0 T __ _. ficate was assigned by Ins executor to J. M. U-rit- ° * ^h. on the 2éth day of November, 1875, to whom pax qeecjs were issued on the 15th day of January, 1876, and filed for record on the 18th of the same month. The land was wild, uncultivated prairie, and it is claimed by the defendant that about…
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