Cone v. Wood
Supreme Court of Iowa
!Appeal from Woodbury District Gourt. — George W. Waee-eield, Judge. ActioN to quiet title. The facts, as presented by the record and in argument, are complicated. The primary inquiry is as to the validity of tax deeds. Prior to July, 1889, D. T. Hedges was the owner of lots 17, 18, and 19, in block 64, Pierce’s addition to Sioux City, Iowa.
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!Appeal from Woodbury District Gourt. — George W. Waee-eield, Judge. ActioN to quiet title. The facts, as presented by the record and in argument, are complicated. The primary inquiry is as to the validity of tax deeds. Prior to July, 1889, D. T. Hedges was the owner of lots 17, 18, and 19, in block 64, Pierce’s addition to Sioux City, Iowa. The lots, as platted, lay in the southwest corner of the block, the west -end of the lots abutting on Jones street, and lot 17, being the south one, lay along Thirty-second street. The east end of the lots abutted on an alley running through the block.…
1Opinion of the Court
(xRANGER, J.
— I. There is no doubt to our minds that plaintiff stands as to his rights \mder the tax deeds issued to Farrell, as -would the trust company were it the plaintiff asking the same relief. By this we mean that there are no intervening equities in his behalf.
1 The question we now consider is, had the trust company the right to purchase at tax sale and take title to the west one-third of lots 11, 18, and 19, being what we have called the west lot ? If it had not, it is because of its interest in the east ^ne-third of these lots because of its mortgage .thereon. Throughout the case it…
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