Fix v. Gray
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Second Judicial District for Latah County. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action to cancel tax deed and to quiet title. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appealed.
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Second Judicial District for Latah County. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action to cancel tax deed and to quiet title. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appealed. In the ease at bar the party knew he was the owner of two entirely separate and distinct tracts located in different places and he had been paying on these for twenty or twenty-five years, prior to the date of the payment in question, and he further knew that the county officers had been “as a rule” making a mistake every time he asked them for his taxes and leaving off this very piece of…
1Opinion of the CourtAilshie, C. J.
This action was instituted by the plaintiff to quiet his title to a certain tract of land to which the defendant held a ta.x deed. The cause was tried and findings and judgment were made and entered in favor of the plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.
The action involved a tract of 320 acres of land situated in Latah county. It appears that the respondent has owned this land since 1884 and during all the time he has lived in the city of Lewiston, Nez Perce county. The evidence discloses that respondent has some 760 acres of land in Latah county and that he was in the habit each year of…
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