Mason v. Roe

Ejectment against Mason for a lot of ground in Connersville. Plea, not guilty. The cause was submitted to the Court, and a judgment rendered for the plaintiff below.

The plaintiff’s lessor exhibited a title derived from the proprietor of the town.

The defendant relied alone upon a title under a sale of the lot for county taxes assessed for the year 1831. He failed to prove, that the board doing county business had fixed the amount which should be collected on the value of town lots in that year ; and the question, whether proof of such an act of the board was essential to the defendant’s title,…