Price v. Barnhill

•The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The only question involved in this case is whether a tax deed was so defective upon its face as to be set aside when attacked after having been of record. *94for more than five years. The deed recited a sale to the county in September, 1893, for the taxes of 1892, an assignment of the certificate on June 8, 1897, for $15.18, and a payment by the purchaser of the taxes of 1896, amounting to $2.12. It was executed on the same day the certificate was assigned. The consideration was stated as “$17.60, taxes, costs and interest due on said land for…