Townsend v. Edwards

Mitchell, J.:

Appellant instituted ejectment in the Circuit Court against the appellee for the recovery of a. town lot situate in Lake City.

The declaration was demurred to, in that it is insufficient in law, that the plaintiff does not allege that the property described in the declaration sold for taxes was not subject to taxation, or that the taxes had been paid before such sale, or tha the property so sold had been redeemed according to law. The demurrer was overruled.

At the same term the defendant filed two pleas,

*583• 1. Not guilty ;

2. That the taxes paid, improvements made on the land, Ac.,…