Parsons v. Viets
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court.— Hon. John A. Lacy, Special Judge. The possession of one who goes in simply and solely under a purchase of land possessed at a tax-sale, and before he receives a deed therefor and before the expiration of the time for redemption has expired is not adverse possession.
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Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court.— Hon. John A. Lacy, Special Judge. The possession of one who goes in simply and solely under a purchase of land possessed at a tax-sale, and before he receives a deed therefor and before the expiration of the time for redemption has expired is not adverse possession. Pease v. Lawson, 33 Mo. 35; DeQraw v. Taylor, 37 Mo. 310 ; Tyler on Eject. [1 Ed.] 876, 877, 878, and cas. cit. ; Jackson v. Thomas, 16 Johns. 292; Jackson v. Frost, 5 Cowen, 346; Hoytv. Dillon, 19 Barb. 644; Jackson v. Camp, 1 Cowan, 605. ,. The acceptance by Thompson of the tax-deed at the…
1Opinion of the CourtNobton, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of the northeast quarter of section 27, township 47, range 22, in Pettis county. The petition was filed the seventeenth of February, 1885. The - answer, besides being a general denial, sets up as a bar to plaintiff’s right to recover, the ten-year statute of limitations; it also pleads that the defendant claims under Newton Thompson and H. P. Townsley, who purchased the land as avérred, at a tax-sale made in October, 1874, and received tax-deeds therefor on the fifth of February, 1877, which were recorded on the same day in the office of…
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