Thompson v. Savage
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hamilton District Gourt. One W. D. Thompson purchased 120 acres of land at tax sale in October, 1864. The sale was made for the delinquent taxes of 1863. A tax deed was made and delivered to the purchaser in' December, 1867. In 1872 said Thompson conveyed the land by deed to the plaintiff herein. Plaintiff brought his action against E. B. Savage and J. B. Savage to quiet his title to said land.
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Appeal from Hamilton District Gourt. One W. D. Thompson purchased 120 acres of land at tax sale in October, 1864. The sale was made for the delinquent taxes of 1863. A tax deed was made and delivered to the purchaser in' December, 1867. In 1872 said Thompson conveyed the land by deed to the plaintiff herein. Plaintiff brought his action against E. B. Savage and J. B. Savage to quiet his title to said land. The said E. B. Savage and J. B. Savage were the holders of the patent title. They appeared in said action and filed a cross-petition, averring among other things that said tax deed was void…
1Opinion of the CourtEothrook, J.
i tax sale: nocentpur-11' chaser. I. It appeal’s from the abstract that certain motions and demurrers wei’e presented and ruled upon. The foregoing statement of facts presents the real ques-ti°ns involved in the case, and for the sake of brevity we will omit further allusion to the abstract. The evidence satisfactorily shows that Stevens purchased the land in good faith, for a valuable consideration, and without any notice of the plaintiff’s claim. When he made the purchase and took his conveyance the tax deed had been decreed to be void.
Under these circumstances. he could not be charged with…
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