Phelps v. Meade
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cass District Court. This is a suit commenced to set aside a tax deed for tbe N. E. of N. E. £ of Sec. 13, township 77, range 35 "West, containing 40 acres.
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Appeal from Cass District Court. This is a suit commenced to set aside a tax deed for tbe N. E. of N. E. £ of Sec. 13, township 77, range 35 "West, containing 40 acres. The plaintiff avers that be is tbe owner thereof, by title derived from the government down'to himself; that the defendant claims some title, or interest therein by virtue of a tax deed made by the treasurer of Cass county to Orlando Meade, and subsequent conveyances from him; that said title is claimed under a pretended tax sale held by the treasurer of Cass county on the 4th of January, 1864. He avers that said sale, and'…
1Opinion of the Court
Cole, J. —
*473i. tax tceed: ness. *472This cause was, by stipulation of the parties, submitted and heard in the court below, and also in this court, upon the evidence taken in the case of Michael Hurley v. Dexter Eeynolds, Orlando Meade and J. Oallanan, pending in the Circuit Court of the H. S. for the District of Iowa, which involved the validity of a tax title derived under the same tax sale made at the same time, and in the same manner. It is not questioned but that under our statute of limitations, Code, Sec. 902, (being the same in effect as the Eevision, Sec. 790,) if there was a sale, in fact,…
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