North Real Estate Loan & Title Co. v. Billings Loan & Trust Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Yellowstone County; Sydney Fox, Judge. Action by the North' Real Estate Loan and Title Company against the Billings Loan and Trust Company and others. From a judgment in favor of the Billings Loan and Trust Company, and from an order denying it a new trial, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Yellowstone County; Sydney Fox, Judge. Action by the North' Real Estate Loan and Title Company against the Billings Loan and Trust Company and others. From a judgment in favor of the Billings Loan and Trust Company, and from an order denying it a new trial, plaintiff appeals. In the absence of statutory provisions to the contrary, neither a tax deed nor its recitals are evidence against the owner of the regularity of any of the proceedings leading up to the tax sale, nor antecedent to the execution of the tax deed. (Norris v. Bussell, 5 Cal. 249; Cooley on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
The above-named plaintiff, a corporation, alleges in its complaint that it is the owner and in possession of lots 5 and 6, in block 52, of the city of Billings; that it has title in fee to the lots, and that the defendants, naming several, claim an estate therein adverse to it, which claims are without any legality. The prayer is that plaintiff be declared to be the owner of the lots, that the defendants be adjudged to have no right or title thereto, and that they be enjoined from asserting any claim thereto adverse to plaintiff. The Billings Loan and Trust Company, a corporation, was the…
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