Seaman v. Thompson

This action was brought in the district court of Fillmore county by the plaintiff against the defendants to foreclose a mortgage executed by Joseph Watson to Robert Watson, *547on the 27th of March, 1875, upon the south-west quarter of section ten, township eight, range two west, to secure the payment of the sum of $500. The mortgage was afterwards assigned to the plaintiff.

The defendants, John S. Thompson, Sr., and John S. Thompson, Jr., claim under a tax deed of said premises executed on the 3d day of• December, 1880, upon a sale of the same on the 5th day of November, 1877, for the-taxes due…