Kent v. Knowles

This suit was instituted by the heirs of Edmond F. Knowles, Jr., to set aside a tax deed and to quiet title to certain lands in Dade County. From a decree in favor of complainants, two of the defendants entered an appeal.

It appears that Edmund F. Knowles Jr., who acquired title to the land in question by government patent in 1898, married complainant Elizabeth Ellen Hoyle in 1901, to which union complainant Arthur E. Knowles was born in 1902, and that in 1904, the father died intestate; that the property was sold to the State for taxes in 1907, and later the State assigned said tax…