Acton Enterprises, Inc. v. Stottle

GREENE, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in a court-tried case in which the Circuit Court of Taney County decreed that plaintiff, Acton Enterprises, Inc., was the fee simple owner of 3.5 acres of real estate in Taney County, claimed by defendant, Glenn Stot-tle, by reason of a collector’s tax deed to the property issued to him in 1981. The trial court also entered a judgment for Stottle against plaintiff in the sum of $215, which represented the amount of back taxes paid on the property by Stottle at the time of the tax sale, plus interest.

Since this was a court-tried case, the…