Werner v. Werner

The. plaintiff, Otto Werner, seeks to quiet a tax title to eighty acres of land in Cass County, North Dakota. The intervenor, Gustave Werner, a brother of the plaintiff, claims title as the original owner of the premises. The plaintiff relies upon a deed issued to him by Cass County, dated November 26, 1940. The county’s title was acquired through tax deed proceedings. This controversy involves the validity of those proceedings.

In 1933 Caroline Werner, the mother of the contending parties, owned the property in question and adjacent land. She failed to pay the taxes for the year 1933 and the…