Kraft v. Carson County

Plaintiff brought this action to quiet title to a half section of land in Corson County. For some time prior to 1924 this land was owned by the State Bank of Franklin, Minnesota. In 1924 the bank entered into a contract with the defendant, C. E. Lewis, whereby Lewis agreed to purchase the land under a crop payment plan. Lewis failed to make the payments required by the contract, and failed to pay taxes for the year 1925 and subsequent years. The Franklin bank failed and in May 1940 the land was sold in the liquidation proceeding to one G. P. Smith. Smith, by quitclaim deed dated April 27,…