Ware v. Little
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Powesheik District Court. Action of right for the possession of the S. E. J of Sec. 9, Tp. No. 79 N, R. No. 14 W. The defendant claims title under a treasurer’s deed. The cause was tried by the court. At the trial the plaintiff introduced in evidence a patent from the United States to one William Tilden, for the land in dispute, and a deed from Tilden to plaintiff therefor, and rested.
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Appeal from Powesheik District Court. Action of right for the possession of the S. E. J of Sec. 9, Tp. No. 79 N, R. No. 14 W. The defendant claims title under a treasurer’s deed. The cause was tried by the court. At the trial the plaintiff introduced in evidence a patent from the United States to one William Tilden, for the land in dispute, and a deed from Tilden to plaintiff therefor, and rested. Defendant thereupon introduced the record of a tax deed from the treasurer of Powesheik county to Reuben Mickel, for the land in controversy, dated February 10, 1869. This deed recites a sale, on…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The facts of this ease are singular. The land was sold in 1860 for the taxes of 1857, 1858 and 1859. For the years 1857 and 1858, the land in question was extended upon the tax list in tracts of forty acres, and for the year 1859 in tracts of eighty acres.
Section 764 of the Revision, as it stood at the time of this sale, required that the advertisement should contain a description of the several parcels of real property to be sold, as the same are recorded on the-tax list. Section 765 of the Revision requires that the treasurer shall offer for sale, separately, each tract or parcel of real…
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