Douglass v. Lowell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

This is ejectment for the recovery of land in Jackson county, and at a trial had in 1890 the defendants prevailed, but upon a review in this court the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for another trial. (Douglass v. Lowell, 55 Kan. 574, 40 Pac. 917.) In the trial which followed defendants were again successful, and several of the rulings made during the trial are now assigned for error.

The plaintiff’s principal, claim of title was based on a sale of the land in 1863 for the taxes of 1862, when it was bid off by the county…