Gray v. Coan
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. This action involves the title to thirty-nine lots in Arnold and Young’s addition to the city of Clinton.
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Appeal from Clinton District Court. This action involves the title to thirty-nine lots in Arnold and Young’s addition to the city of Clinton. In July, 1855, Dwight Eeed, of "Wayne county, Pennsylvania, -furnished Z. "W. Arnold $900, to' be invested in real estate in the name of Z. W. Arnold, along the line of the-Mississippi & Iowa Central Eailroad, or somewhere in the State of Iowa; it being agreed that upon the sale of the real estate Eeed should ’receive' the sum of money furnished by him, with seven per cent interest; and that the net proceeds of the sales over and above that sum should…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
Although the abstract in this case is quite voluminous, and counsel.have argued the case at great length, the 1. tax sale: redemption saiefíoimei whole covering nearly two hundred and fifty pages, yet the real questions involved, and necessary to a determination of the case, are very few and .very simple.
All of the property in controversy was sold in 1862 for the delinquent taxes of preceding years, and in 1866 the defendant, Ooan, procured and recorded his tax deeds therefor.
If this sale was valid, and there is nothing connected with the efforts at redemption, which gives plaintiff an equity…
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- Gray v. CoanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
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