Laughlin v. Kieper
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Florence 'county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action in ejectment. Tbe issues litigated concerned whether plaintiff was the owner of the land in dispute under the patent title without efficient interference by a tax-deed title; and also the owner thereof under'such a deed acquired -at first by Margaret McHale in 1885 ; and whether his claim On such findings and others to the effect that plaintiff was-the owner of the premises…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Florence 'county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action in ejectment. Tbe issues litigated concerned whether plaintiff was the owner of the land in dispute under the patent title without efficient interference by a tax-deed title; and also the owner thereof under'such a deed acquired -at first by Margaret McHale in 1885 ; and whether his claim On such findings and others to the effect that plaintiff was-the owner of the premises in controversy and entitled to recover the same, subject to whatever rights defendant Kieper had under the Gaiser tax…
1Opinion of the Court
1Wa t?.sttaT.T., J.
A conclusion has been reached without considering any question discussed by counsel other than such as concern the tax deed under which appellant claims title.
It is contended that the attesting clause of the Gaiser tax. deed is defective because the recital as to the seal affixed thereto is in these words: “Seal of the county board of supervisors,” instead of words describing the seal as the county-seal. True by subd. 8, sec. 669, Stats. 1898, the only seal for the authentication of instruments officially executed by the county clerk at the time of the execution of the deed…
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