Van Hall v. Rea

*676The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action in the district court was one of ejectment. The plaintiffs recovered and the defendant appeals. The title of the defendant is based upon a tax deed which the court held to be invalid and which appears to be invalid. It was essential, however, that the plaintiffs should establish* title in themselves, and in doing this they were permitted to read in evidence the record of a receiver’s final receipt, in the usual form and recorded in 1888, without accounting for the original. The defendant claims the record was incompetent for the…