King v. Bolt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Montgomery District Court. — Hon. E. B. Woodruff, Judge. Action to quiet title to a lot in the city of Bed Oak. Defendants pleaded adverse possession and other defenses, and also by counterclaim asked that title he quieted in them. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The lot in controversy was sold'for the delinquent taxes of the years 1876, 1877 and 1878, at the regular tax sale held in November of the year 1879, to, .the plaintiff. Thereafter and on June 14, 1888, a tax deed for said lot issued to the plaintiff pursuant to said sale. Defendant Alwilda Bolt claims to have acqxxired title to the said lot through a deed from one Honeyman, , which , deed was never . recorded and, it is claimed,was lost many years ago. Pursuant to said deed, defendant took immediate possession of the premises and occupied the same with her husband as a homestead down to the…
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