Utah Lead Co. v. Piute County

WOLFE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by the district court of Piute county quieting title to certain mining claims in defendant Jacob W. Young. Young bases his claim of title on a private sale from the county after the county had received an auditor’s deed consequent on alleged tax delinquencies. Plaintiff based its cause of action to quiet title on ownership which it is alleged was never divested by the auditor’s deed because no tax was due at the time the redemption period terminated and because of numerous claimed irregularities in assessments.

The facts are…