Washburn Land Co. v. Sanborn

There was nothing unusual about tbe original transaction between attorneys Sanborn" and McLeod. Tbe former bad instituted an action to bar tbe former owners of certain lands under sec. 1197, Stats. (1898), and succeeding sections. Tbe plaintiffs beld a single tax deed on this land on wbicb tbe tbree-year statute of limitations bad not run, and some tax certificates wbicb were not old enough to be deedable. Tbb defendants bad tbe right under tbe statute to set up by way of defense' certain defects or irregularities which would avoid the tax deed, but as a condition of making such defenses they…