Fenton v. Way
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Oourt. This is a suit in equity to set aside a tax deed made by t*he treasurer of Hardin county, upon a tax sale of the land of the plaintiff. The cause was tried by. the court, and a decree rendered dismissing plaintiff’s petition, from which he appeals. The further facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Ch. J.
I. The record shows that the plaintiff, on the 19th day of October, A. D. 1854, became the owner, from the United States, of the east half of the southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section one, township' eighty-seven north of range nineteen west of the 5th P. M. Three forty acre tracts of this land were sold October 1st, 1860, for the taxes of 1859, and the whole of the four foi’ties were sold on the 7th day of July, 1862, for the delinquent taxes of 1861.
On the 17th day of July, 1862, the…
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