Severson v. Simon

I concur in the result reached in the opinion of the Chief Justice. Conceding that N. W. Simon originally acquired title to the land in litigation as trustee for his coad-venturers, he fulfilled his obligations under the trust when he and his wife executed a deed of an undivided one-tenth interest to each of them and delivered the deed to William Larson. Upon the delivery of this deed N. W. Simon became a tenant in common with his nine associates. When the deed was delivered it was with the understanding that Larson was to pay the taxes. Larson, however, neither paid the taxes nor recorded…