Griswold v. Lagge

MR. JUSTICE CASTLES:

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree quieting title to a half section of land in Garfield County in the defendants.

A patent to the land here involved was issued to Alfred M. Clark, plaintiff’s predecessor, in the year 1919. Clark has paid no taxes on this land since the year 1921. In the fall of 1922 the land was sold to Garfield County for delinquent taxes, tax deed issued January 17, 1930.

Garfield County made application for tax deed. The county clerk and recorder filed in his office an affidavit of proof of service of the notice of the application for tax deed,…