Fagan v. Huntress & Brown Lumber Co.

Action to determine adverse claims to vacant and unoccupied land. The trial court found that the plaintiff had no title to the land, and he appealed from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff claimed title to the land by virtue of a tax sale made pursuant to a tax judgment against it for the taxes of 1893. The material part of such judgment, as shown by the record in this case, is in these words:

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This judgment is void on its face for two reasons. The attempted description of the land is fatally defective. It describes no land. Keith v. Hayden, 26 Minn. 212, 2 N. W. 495;…