Legal Opinion
Gomer v. Chaffee
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided December 15, 1882PublishedCited by 57 opinions
Error to County Court of Arapahoe County. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Elbert, O. J.
This was an action brought in the •county court of Arapahoe county, April 6, 1878, by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover possession of lots twenty-nine and thirty, in. block ninety, in Stiles’ addition to the city of Denver.
The plaintiff, Gomer, claimed by chain of title from Stiles, the government patentee.
The defendant claimed title by virtue of a tax sale April 17, 1871, and a tax deed April 24,1873, to one Peter Magnus, to whom defendant traced his title through several grantors.
He also interposed a plea of the statute of limitations; that the…
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