Grinstead v. Cooper

S. W. Cooper, having acquired the interest of the widow, A. Mary Franke, in the land, and also the mortgage which she and her husband had executed before his death, became vested with the legal and equitable title to an undivided half interest in the property. Robert U. Grinstead, who finally purchased the remaining half interest of the children, claims ownership of the whole through a tax deed executed in September* 1896, based on a sale for the taxes of 1892. The tax deed was of record less than five years *779when it was attacked, and hence it is subject to a strict construction. Its omissions…