Adair v. Mergentheim

This was a suit by Mergentheim to enforce a tax lien upon certain lots in the city of Kokomo. There was a decree in favor of the plaintiff below, a jury having returned the facts to the court in a special verdict.

From the facts found it appears that the title to the lots in question was in Josiah M. Leeds, and that in August, 1874, Josiah M. and Louisa W. Leeds, his wife, joined in a conveyance of the lots, by way of mortgage, to the defendants Adair and Butler. Subsequently the taxes became delinquent, and in 1877 the lots were sold at a tax sale for delinquent city taxes to'Alfred B.…