Straus v. Foxworth
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. The facts, which involve the validity of a tax sale and the constitutionality of a statute of New Mexico relative to tax deeds, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was a suit to quiet the title to three tracts of land in Quay County, in the Territory of New Mexico. In the court of first instance a demurrer to the complaint was sustained and, the plaintiff declining to amend, a decree of dismissal was entered, which subsequently was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the Territory. 16 N. Mex. 442. An appeal from the decree of affirmance brings the case here, under the act of March 3, 1885, 23 Stat. 443, c. 355.
The complaint purported to state four causes of. action. In the first, embracing all the tracts, it was alleged that the plaintiff was the…
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