Chandler v. Keeler
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Keokuk District Cowrt. Action at law to recover the possession of certain real estate, the plaintiff’s title being based on a tax deed.
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Appeal from, Keokuk District Cowrt. Action at law to recover the possession of certain real estate, the plaintiff’s title being based on a tax deed. Among other defenses the defendants answered: “That said lot was not sold at tax sale, there being no sale in the month of November, 1870; that there was a pretended sale only, in pursuance of a corrupt and fraudulent agreement by and between the treasurer and "W. D. Merriam, agent and son of S. N. Merriam, in pursuance of which over 400 tracts of land were sold in bulk to said W. D., in the name of said S. N., at a single bid; that said tracts…
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
i. tax sale: register. ’ I. Against the objection of the plaintiff, the tax sale register was introduced in evidence as tending to show fraud, and that it failed to show any adjournment of the sale from October 3d to November 3d, 1870. Such register showed a sale at the latter date of five town lots to one party, two to another, and then 425 descriptions of land, including the lot in controversy, to S. N. Merriam, each tract with its price opposite its description, and then follows the sale of thirteen lots to B. B. Jacobs.
The register undoubtedly was admissible for the purpose of showing…
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