Chamberlain v. Blodgett
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Barry Circuit Court. — Hon. W. F. G-eiger, Judge. (1) The taxes against the land were a lien thereon, not the debt of its owner ; and the assessment, suit and publication against the land and its “apparent owner,” designated as “M. B. Miller,” charged the owner with notice and gave the court jurisdiction to pronounce decree and pass title to the land, because the public records, to which resort must be had under the law to ascertain who was its owner, fixed that…
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Appeal from Barry Circuit Court. — Hon. W. F. G-eiger, Judge. (1) The taxes against the land were a lien thereon, not the debt of its owner ; and the assessment, suit and publication against the land and its “apparent owner,” designated as “M. B. Miller,” charged the owner with notice and gave the court jurisdiction to pronounce decree and pass title to the land, because the public records, to which resort must be had under the law to ascertain who was its owner, fixed that name as the proper designation of its owner (as he was bound to know), for the purposes of a suit for taxes, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Ejectment for the southeast quarter of section 3, township 24, range 28, in Barry county. Plaintiff relies upon tax proceedings in the Barry circuit court instituted against M. B. Miller, resulting in a sale of the land aforesaid, and a deed by the sheriff to Talbert and Hesse, under whom plaintiff claims by mesne conveyances. The county tract-book shows for more than ten years past that the property in suit had been located and entered in 1857, by said M. B. Miller. The defendant Blodgett is the tenant of Allen, who bought the land and received a deed from McPherson B. Millen, the patentee…
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