Wood v. Meyer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. Ejectment, commenced June 25, 1873. Complaint in the usual form. Answer, a general denial, and that defendant had been in possession and claiming title under a duly recorded tax deed for more than three years preceding the action.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. Ejectment, commenced June 25, 1873. Complaint in the usual form. Answer, a general denial, and that defendant had been in possession and claiming title under a duly recorded tax deed for more than three years preceding the action. Upon the trial, plaintiff offered in evidence a tax deed dated March 12, 1861, recorded the same day, upon a tax sale made by the treasurer of Manitowoc county, June 9, 1857. Defendant objected, on the ground that there was no law authorizing the sale of the lands in question on that day, but the court admitted the…
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.
The tax deed under which the respondent claims, was executed in 1861, on a sale made by the treasurer of Manitowoc county, in which the land lies, June 9, 1857. The time of sale for nonpayment of taxes was then fixed for the second Tuesday in April, and the next succeeding days. R. S. 1849, ch. 15, sec. 86. It appears, however, that the legislature of 1857 undertook to postpone the time, in that county, for that year, for sixty days. P. & L. Laws of 1857, ch. 14. This act is found in the volume of private laws, without particular date of publication; and it must be held in this case as not…
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