Coleman v. Baker

This is an action by the, dative executor of Peter G. Thompson, deceased, to redeem certain lands which had belonged to Thompson, but had been purchased at tax sale by the defendant Baker, on the twenty-soventh November, 1869.

It is not, as urged by defendant’s aitorney, a petitory action. The plaintiff admits the,regularity of the purchase at tax sale by defendant, hut claims that he has defeated the inchoate rights of defendant by having tendered to him within the year allowed by statute, the price, with the penalty, costs, etc. The defendant admits the title in Thompson at the moment of…