Murphy v. Hall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. ° Justice Cassoday; This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint for insufficiency, in an action to foreclose three several tax certificates purporting to be issued on three several sales of the same land, each to Oconto county, by the county treasurer thereof, at the dates, respectively, May 16, 1882, May 15, 1883, and May 20, 1884, and' each…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. ° Justice Cassoday; This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint for insufficiency, in an action to foreclose three several tax certificates purporting to be issued on three several sales of the same land, each to Oconto county, by the county treasurer thereof, at the dates, respectively, May 16, 1882, May 15, 1883, and May 20, 1884, and' each purporting to be for the nonpayment of the taxes, interest, and charges due on said land for the year previous to' such…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It is urged that the description of the land in each certificate is so indefinite and uncertain as to be fatally defective. This is virtually conceded to be true, unless the description is aided by the “ Act to regulate the description of real estate for the purposes of assessment and taxation in the city of Oconto.” Oh. 105, Laws of 1881. By that act all the real estate in the city subject to taxation was required to be correctly and fully described, in numerical order, in a book to be kept for that purpose in the office of the register of deeds, to be known and designated as the “…
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