Moran v. Thomas

This is an action to determine adverse claims to certain real property. The appeal is from an order denying defendant’s application for a new trial. The plaintiff owns the property in controversy unless it was transferred to the defendants by certain tax deeds, recorded more than three years prior to the commencement of this suit. The learned circuit *470court found that the only attempted description of the property in the assessor’s book or list was as follows: “S. 2, N. E. 4, and S. E. 4 N. W. 4 Sec. 29, township 118, range 54,” and concluded that each of the tax deeds was void because neither…