State v. Whiteside

Loring, Chief Justice.

This is an action by the state of Minnesota to determine adverse claims to property in Crow Wing county. The state claims title by way of tax-forfeiture proceedings in which it bid in the lands. Respondent taxpayers, whose lands were bid in by the state, alleged in their answers certain defects in the tax-forfeiture proceedings and deposited with the clerk of the district court a sum of money to cover taxes, penalties, interest, and costs.

The trial court held that because of jurisdictional defects in the tax-forfeiture proceedings respondents were the owners in fee…