Poindexter v. Doolittle
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ilowa/rcl District Oov/rt. Action to set aside three tax deeds. Tlie first deed recites that the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 5, township 99, range 14, was exposed to public sale for taxes for the year 1872, and M. B. Doolittle having offered to pay the taxes for fourteen acres of the land, the same was struck off to him, and that three years having elapsed from the date of sale the treasurer conveyed the said premises to said Doolittle.
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Appeal from Ilowa/rcl District Oov/rt. Action to set aside three tax deeds. Tlie first deed recites that the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 5, township 99, range 14, was exposed to public sale for taxes for the year 1872, and M. B. Doolittle having offered to pay the taxes for fourteen acres of the land, the same was struck off to him, and that three years having elapsed from the date of sale the treasurer conveyed the said premises to said Doolittle. The other two deeds were similar, except that in one the land exposed to sale was the northwest quarter of the southeast…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Ch. J.
1 1, TAX* SALE l fe'notico’anci deed. The words, fov,rteen acres, describe no land, nor is the description helped by the limitation of the fourteen acres to a certain larger tract. It is still O fatally defective. This, of course, the appellant would not deny if the words are to be considered solely by themselves. But he insists that under the statute *53the words may be given a definite moaning. lie insists that under tlie statute fourteen acres of a given forty acre tract moans an undivided fourteen-fortieths of the tract. The statute relied upon is section 876 of the Code. That…
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