Stewart v. Elliott

We see no error in the rulings of the court below prejudicial to the plaintiff in error. He bid in his-own property at tax sale. By withholding his deed from record and having the tax certificate issued in the name of Louis H. Stewart, his brother, he made it appear that the transaction was not a payment by him of the taxes, but a bona fide purchase by his brother. The true state of facts appeared when the plaintiff in error testified as a witness in the case of Churchill v. Elliott. The discovery of the fraud practised on plaintiff below dated from that time, and the record of that case,…