Carnahan v. Sieber Cattle Co.

This dispute is about lands. The appellees, in whose favor as defendants below judgment was rendered, own the same unless their title was extinguished by a tax deed or deeds upon which appellant’s claim of title entirely rests. Briefly the facts are that the taxes upon these lands having become delinquent, they were, under our general revenue laws, advertised for sale by the county treasurer. At the sale no bid was made for the property, 'and the county treasurer purported to bid it off for and issued his certificate of purchase to the county under the authority conferred upon him by the…