Berger v. Johnson

Defendants Oscar H. Johnson and wife appeal from a decree quieting plaintiff Berger’s title to approximately 160 acres of land bought by him from Cascade county, which had taken it from the above-named defendant by tax deed in 1936. The latter had acquired the land in 1917 and, except for the years 1935 and 1936, farmed it continuously until the autumn of 1942. His possession, after he lost the land by tax deed, was by a lease from the county which was on file in the office of the county clerk and recorder, and which included the following provision: “It is hereby agreed by and between the…