Wilson v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Morgan Circuit Court. — Hon. Joseph R. Edwabds, Special Judge. (1) The tax deed offered in evidence by the defendants should have been admitted, and the first declaration of law asked by the defendants should have been given.
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Error to Morgan Circuit Court. — Hon. Joseph R. Edwabds, Special Judge. (1) The tax deed offered in evidence by the defendants should have been admitted, and the first declaration of law asked by the defendants should have been given. The testimony shows conclusively that defendants’ ancestors took possession under the tax deed in good faith, and held the possession thereof, by themselves, tenants and agents, for more than ten years, believing they owned the same, and the tax deed was, if nothing more, color of title, and extended defendants’ possession to the whole tract therein described,…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, P. J.
Plaintiff commenced this action of ejectment in July, 1891, to recover possession of two-hundred and eighty acres of land in Morgan county. The plaintiff entered the land and received a patent from the United States prior to 1860.
Defendants put in evidence a tax deed, dated the third of October, 1868, which was not recorded until February, 1880. According to the recitals of this deed it is based upon unpaid taxes as follows: $1.63 for the. year 1861, upon one hundred and twenty acres; $1.32 for 1862 upon a different one hundred and twenty-acres; and $1.02 for 1864 upon another forty acres. *629The…
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