Easton v. Doolittle
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Howard District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Action to quiet title and redeem from a tax sale of land. Judgment for defendants, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
This action was originally commenced in 1876, to quiet the title to forty acres of land. Since, there have been changes as to parties and the subject-matter so that it now stands as an action to permit redemption of, and quiet the title to, the southwest quarter of section 5, township 98, range *375IB, in Howard county, Iowa. In 1870 this land was sold for the taxes of 1869. The petition represents that in 1870 the plaintiff, who then owned the land, applied to the treasurer of Howard county to pay the taxes on the land for the year 1869; that the treasurer informed him that the taxes were…
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