Colby v. Stevenson

Essential facts to state and present this controversy are that plaintiff Colby sold and conveyed 120 acres of land to E. E. Glaseo, reserving to himself an undivided one-third (40 acres) mineral interest (afterwards reduced by other conveyances to a one-sixth or 20 acre interest retained by Colby.) Thereafter the land, while owned by Glaseo, was sold for delinquent ad valorem taxes at resale to one Bradshaw who conveyed to one Bonney. E. E. Glaseo then filed suit against Bonney to cancel the tax deed alleging reasons why the tax sale and deed were invalid. That case, however, was never tried.…