Van Valkenburg v. Rhodes

Chapman, J.,

— This cause is before the Court on writ of error to a final judgment in behalf of the defendant in the lower court. It is an action in ejectment tried in the Circuit Court of Lake County, Florida. The plaintiff offered in evidence at the trial of the case a tax deed in support of his claim of ownership of the title to the land involved in the suit. The defendant objected to the admission of the alleged tax deed in evidence on the grounds; “That said instrument is void on its face because it purports to be a tax deed but shows on its face that the assessment of the taxes for which…