Twyford v. Stephens

This is an action to quiet title and involves the validity of a certificate tax deed in defendants’ chain of title. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

We will consider first plaintiff’s contention in support of the judgment that the deed under which defendants claim is champertous and void. One W. C. Foster obtained a certificate tax deed to the property in question on June 19, 1925. He conveyed the property by quitclaim deed to T. M. Langley on November 12, 1925, who in turn conveyed to defendants on February 25, 1931. Plaintiff claims the deeds of Foster to Langley…