Nortmann-Duffke Co. v. Federal Crushed Stone Co.

Taylor, C.

Appeal from an order disallowing a claim for taxes filed by the intervener county with the receiver of the Federal Crushed Stone Company, a Minnesota corporation.. The Federal Crushed Stone Company was adjudged an involuntary bankrupt February 1, 1925. Harold W. Cox was appointed as trustee. The company owned 20 acres of land in Pipestone county on which taxes for the years 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924 aggregating more than $3,000 were unpaid. Pursuant to an order of the bankruptcy .court, the trustee sold this land at public auction and conveyed it to the purchaser by quitclaim deed…