Delta Land & Orchard Co. v. Zaninetti

This suit was brought by claimants under a tax deed for possession of lands situate in an irrigation district. The court found that the only issues raised were such as go to the regularity of the plaintiffs’ deed; that the defendants had not paid the taxes, interest, penalties and cost due upon the plaintiffs’ certificate of purchase, and incurred in the taking out of plaintiffs’ tax deed, for which reason that they were without right to attack its validity. It also found that the deed was void upon its face, for the reason that non-contiguous tracts were sold en masse. The judgment was to…