Pleasants v. Rohrer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment, commenced September 7, 1860, by Pleasants and Brent against Rohrer. The plaintiffs made out a prima facie case by tracing their title to the United States.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment, commenced September 7, 1860, by Pleasants and Brent against Rohrer. The plaintiffs made out a prima facie case by tracing their title to the United States. The defendant relied upon adverse possession under two tax deeds executed to his grantor, one recorded June 2, 1856, and the other June 2,1857. The plaintiffs objected to the reading of the deeds in evidence, on the ground of certain defects appearing on their face, which need not here be stated, as this court does not pass upon them. The circuit court admitted the deeds in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
We are of tbe opinion that tbe circuit court was in error in bolding that tbe statute of limitations bad run upon either of tbe tax deeds offered in evidence on tbe trial, and that the title under those deeds bad become absolute and perfect at law. It is not claimed that either of tbe tax deeds had been recorded three years when chapter 197, Laws of 1859, took effect. That statute extended tbe time within which tbe owners of land sold for taxes might bring an action to recover possession of the same, three years from the passage of the act. Before tbe expiration of tbis…
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