Milburn v. Beaty

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

This case involves the validity of a tax: deed over five years old, which was upheld by the trial court. The deed, after reciting the offering of two separate quarter sections at tax sale on -September 4,1894, for the delinquent taxes of 1893, proceeded:

“And whereas, at the place aforesaid, neither of the said parcels, tracts, and lots of property could be sold for the amount of the taxes and charges thereon, and each of them was therefore, as they were severally and in due course as aforesaid, offered for sale, bid off by the county…