Curtis v. Morrow
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Action (commenced in September, 1868), by Mary Curtis, as the grantee in a tax deed, to recover possession of the land, and to bar the rights of the original owner and those claiming under him, etc.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Action (commenced in September, 1868), by Mary Curtis, as the grantee in a tax deed, to recover possession of the land, and to bar the rights of the original owner and those claiming under him, etc. The deed was made May 12, 1868, on a.sale of May 11, 1865, for taxes of 1864; and the land is described as “the north one third of the north half of that tract among the private claims west side of Pox river, called ‘vacant strip,’ in the county of Brown and state of Wisconsin, containing about 54 Anr acres.” The complaint avers that at the time of…
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
It appears that there was a statute, not cited in the court below, authorizing the council of the borough of Fort Howard to levy a tax of five mills on the dollar valuation, for the purpose of repairing and improving streets, instead of one mill on the dollar valuation, as prescribed by the act of incorporation. Laws of 1861, ch. 76; Pr. Laws of 1856, ch. 535, § 27. This objection, therefore, upon which it is understood that the court below held the tax deed void, does not exist.
And we have carefully considered the several other positions taken by counsel for the plaintiff, and think they are…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Knox v. HundhausenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1868
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