Hall v. Baker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the- Circuit Court for Marinette County. Ejectment. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of tbe defendant. They contended, inter alia, that the act of 1819 passed to Mari-nette county the legal title to the tax certificates. A tax certificate evidences an interest in land and is therefore real property.
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APPEAL from the- Circuit Court for Marinette County. Ejectment. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of tbe defendant. They contended, inter alia, that the act of 1819 passed to Mari-nette county the legal title to the tax certificates. A tax certificate evidences an interest in land and is therefore real property. R. S. sec. 4911, subd. 9; Van Camp v. Peer-enboom, 14 Wis. 70; Eaton v. Manitowoc Co. 44 id. 489; Morn v. Carry, 49 id. 464. The formal assignment was intended to be the documentary evidence of the transfer, but not the…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment, and the foundations of the plaintiff’s title are tax deeds issued to *121Oconto county. A number of objections is taken to the validity of these deeds. It is insisted that the deeds are void upon their face, and vested no title to any of the lands therein described in Oconto county for various reasons. Some of these reasons will be first considered.
In order to fully understand the objections to the tax deeds, it is necessary to premise that by ch. 114, Laws of 1879, the legislature created and organized the county of Marinette out of territory theretofore embraced…
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