Legal Opinion

Parker v. Van Steenburg

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 19, 1885PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Olay District Cotort. Action in equity to cancel a tax deed to forty acres of land, and quiet plaintiff’s title thereto. There was a judgment for plaintiff, granting the relief demanded in the petition. Defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.

Plaintiff seeks to defeat the tax deed under which defendant claims the land in controversy, on the ground that the land was not assessed for taxation for the year for which it was sold. The facts are that in January, 1873, the boai’d of supervisors of the county made such changes in the boundary line between the civil townships of Ilerdland and Lincoln that the land was transferred from the former, in which it had formerly been included, to the latter. In preparing the assessors’ books for that year, however, the audi*175tor entered the land, by its proper description, in the book prepared for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Robb v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Galusha v. WendtSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901
  2. First National Bank v. AndersonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1923
  3. Or. & Cal. R. R. v. Lane CountyOregon Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Polk County v. ShermanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
  5. Estate of Mead v. Story CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1903

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