Wade v. Carney

BobiNSON., .Judge:

M. Gr. and Harry D. Knox conveyed land to IT. T. Wade. Subsequently the land was sold at a tax sale to Carney, for taxes assesse'd in the names of the Knoxes prior to their conveyance to Wade. This suit by Wade assailed the tax deed made to Carnejg and the proceedings upon which it was based, as illegal *757and invalid. The court below held the tax deed good and entered a decree dismissing the cause. Then Wade, because he had thus lost the land, sued the Knoxes, in an Ohio court, on their covenants of general warranty in the deed whereby they conveyed to him. The Knoxes besought…