Hillyer v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Jefferson District Court. Action of ejectment by Willard R. Douglass and others against M. P. Hillyer, as administrator, and others. Plaintiffs had judgment, and defendants bring error. The opinion, filed November 9, 1895, states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mastín, C. J.: I. The respective parties claim title under tax deeds. The alleged title of the plaintiffs below, who are defendants in error, was based upon the same tax deed as that in the case of Noble v. Douglass, just decided; and the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, relied upon a compromise tax deed, in all substantial respects the same as that set up by the plaintiffs in error in the former case, and the evidence was the same in each case, except that affecting the bar of the statute of limitations. The compromise tax deed was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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