Veltin v. Haas

I think that the result reached by the Court in this case is correct, but I am not willing to rest the decision on the proposition that a plea of ten years prescription acquirendi causa is a sufficient defense to an action for the recognition of a tax title. In my opinion, however, the defendants are entitled to a judgment recognizing them as the owners of the property involved in this suit because the deed in which Howard Cole, defendants' ancestor in title in good faith acquired the property, contains a declaration by the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector that the taxes of 1909 were…