Merrill v. Jones

In this case the appellant filed a petition in the district court of Lancaster county, containing sixteen separate c mses of action, and alleged the purchase, by plaintiff, of sixteen tracts of land in said county, belonging to defendants, at a tax sale held December 8, 1888, also the payment by plaintiff of various sums, taxes on the premises, prior and subsequent to the date of sale.; and further alleged that no tax deeds had ever been executed, or any application made for the same. The prayer of the petition was for a finding of amount due, a foreclosure of the tax cértifioates or liens,…