Bronson v. Kukuk
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Iowa
At law. Ejectment for 160 acres of land. Trial to court The plaintiff claims title under a patent from the United States to himself, dated June 1, 1863. The defendant is in possession under tax deeds, which are regular and vest the title in the defendant if the land was subject to taxation under the laws of the state of Iowa, for the year 1861. The defendant had no notice of the defect below mentioned in the plaintiff’s entry of the land.
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At law. Ejectment for 160 acres of land. Trial to court The plaintiff claims title under a patent from the United States to himself, dated June 1, 1863. The defendant is in possession under tax deeds, which are regular and vest the title in the defendant if the land was subject to taxation under the laws of the state of Iowa, for the year 1861. The defendant had no notice of the defect below mentioned in the plaintiff’s entry of the land. On the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence a patent from the United States to himself, dated June 1, 1863, reciting that it is issued pursuant to the…
1Opinion of the Court
DILLON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff located a land warrant on the land in contro--versy, in 1853, but when in 1862 the warrant reached the pension office in due course, it was pronounced to have been issued on false and forged papers, and it was in consequence cancelled on the 9th day of May of that year, and the plaintiff given time to substitute another warrant, which he did in the latter part of 1862 and received a patent for the land dated June 1, 1803. Meanwhile, the state of Iowa assessed this land for taxation for the year 1861, and sold it in 1802 for the delinquent taxes of the…
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