Smith v. Todd
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment. The answer alleged title in the defendant by virtue of a tax deed issued September 24, 1881, based upon the sale of the lands for taxes and a certificate thereof duly issued, Nay 11,18J5. The tax deed so described was offered and received in evidence at the trial.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment. The answer alleged title in the defendant by virtue of a tax deed issued September 24, 1881, based upon the sale of the lands for taxes and a certificate thereof duly issued, Nay 11,18J5. The tax deed so described was offered and received in evidence at the trial. The defendant also offered in evidence an assignment to him from one Heffry Sherry, dated June 20, 1881, of the certificate of the sale upon which the tax deed issued. This assignment covered a large number of other certificates and was not attached to any certificate…
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
It appears from the records of tbe county treasurer that tbe premises in question were bid off by and duly sold for taxes, and a certificate thereof issued to the county of Winnebago, May 11, 1875, and that the county treasurer thereafter, on the 25th day of September, 1875, sold said certificates to one Henry Sherry, and as evidence and an assignment thereof to him indorsed the same in blank. It must be presumed that the county clerk had knowledge of such records and the facts therein stated when he issued and executed the tax deed of said premises to the defendant on which he relies in this…
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