Coleman v. Hart
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. Action of ejectment. The answer set up as a defense, that the lands mentioned in the complaint were, on the 14th of May, 1861, duly sold by the county treasurer of Oconto county for nonpayment of taxes, and tax certificates duly issued ; that a tax deed was duly issued Nov. 23, 1868, upon such certificates to one H. O. Fairchild, then owner and holder of the certificates, and on that day duly recorded; that at the time of…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. Action of ejectment. The answer set up as a defense, that the lands mentioned in the complaint were, on the 14th of May, 1861, duly sold by the county treasurer of Oconto county for nonpayment of taxes, and tax certificates duly issued ; that a tax deed was duly issued Nov. 23, 1868, upon such certificates to one H. O. Fairchild, then owner and holder of the certificates, and on that day duly recorded; that at the time of issuing the tax deed the lands were and always previously had been wholly unoccupied; that since that time Fairchild, and…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
To defeat a recovery in the action the defendants offered in evidence the tax deed issued to H. 0. Fairchild, November 23, 1868, referred to in the answer, and under which they claimed the premises in controversy. In order to impeach the validity of that deed, and to destroy the title therein granted, the plaintiff offered to show that the grantee, Fairchild, was deputy treasurer at the time he purchased the tax certificates upon which the tax deed was issued, and also that he was deputy treasurer when the tax deed was issued to him. This evidence was objected to and excluded by the court as…
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