Chapman v. Templeton
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Louisiana Court of Common Pleas. I. The only purpose for which the tax-deed could have been used at all was to show color of title in the defendants, and inasmuch as they had failed to show possession for ten years, or evidence tending to show that fact, the deed was not competent for any purpose. II. A donation of the block could not be shown by oral testimony.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Judge
This was an action of ejectment for a block of laud in the city of Louisiana in Pike County.
The plaintiffs produced a clear paper title. The defendants relied on the statute of limitations, and for this purpose claimed under a tax sale as color of title, and introduced evidence tending to show, that they had in the year 1858 permitted the City of Louisiana to put a hog-pen on the block, about the center of it, which was used by the city for about two years, and then abandoned and went to decay, and was never used or occupied by the defendants.
The evidence tended to show, that the defendants…
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