Whitney v. Stevens

This was a bill in equity, exhibited in the circuit- court of Jasper county, by Roland Whitney against U. G. Stevens, to set aside a tax title which Stevens had acquired in a certain quarter section of land in Jasper county.

At the May term. 1874, of the court; a hearing was had upon bill, answer, replication and proofs, and. a decree was rendered denying the relief prayed for, and dismissing complainant’s bill, to reverse which the complainant brings the record here by writ of error.

The complainant bases his right to maintain a bill upon certain errors alleged t-o have occurred in the…