Truesdell v. Green
Supreme Court of Iowa
The plaintiff brings this action to quiet his title to certain land in the petition described. The plaintiff' claims that he is the absolute owner of the real estate in question, in virtue of a sale thereof under execution as the property of one West-brook, and a sheriff’s deed executed pursuant to said sale.
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The plaintiff brings this action to quiet his title to certain land in the petition described. The plaintiff' claims that he is the absolute owner of the real estate in question, in virtue of a sale thereof under execution as the property of one West-brook, and a sheriff’s deed executed pursuant to said sale. The defendants for answer in substance allege that the property in controversy was, on the 2nd day of October, 1871, sold at tax sale to one James Thompson, for delinquent railroad taxes of 1870; that the certificate of purchase was assigned to A. N. Hobson, to whom a treasurer’s deed…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1 tax maid of. I. The tax in question was voted in Geneseo township, Cerro Gordo county, in aid of the Central Railroad of Iowa. Prior to the time the tax was voted one judge Woodbury, of Marshalltown, a director of said railroad company represented to a tax payer of said township that the company would want a five per cent tax in aid of the road, that they should not want it of the residents who had paid the tax in 1868, but wanted to get it of the non-residents who, by the adverse decision of the Supreme Court in 1869, had evaded payment. This representation was communicated Vo the other…
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