Bader v. Thorstenson

This action was brought by holders under a tax deed to quiet title to a quarter section of land in Cor-son County. The defendant who contested the case below and who brings the appeal here is the successor to the interest of the record owners at the time tax deed was taken. He answered plaintiffs’ complaint and counterclaimed, alleging title in himself, on the ground that' there had been jurisdictional defects in the taxing procedure and in the proceedings to take the tax deed. The action was started more than three years after the tax deed issued. Plaintiffs set up the three year statute of…