Western Land Ass'n v. McComber
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Ejectment, brought in the district court for St. Louis county, on May 20,1887, for lots 5 to 14 inclusive in block 98, and all of blocks 99 and 100 in Bndion’s addition to Duluth. The defendant, in her answer, denied any title in plaintiff, and alleged title in herself. At the trial, before Stearns, L, the plaintiff proved title accruing to it in 1868, under the original patentee of the United States.
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Ejectment, brought in the district court for St. Louis county, on May 20,1887, for lots 5 to 14 inclusive in block 98, and all of blocks 99 and 100 in Bndion’s addition to Duluth. The defendant, in her answer, denied any title in plaintiff, and alleged title in herself. At the trial, before Stearns, L, the plaintiff proved title accruing to it in 1868, under the original patentee of the United States. The defendant thereupon introduced in evidence a tax judgment entered August 10, 1882, in proceedings to enforce payment of taxes on real estate remaining delinquent June 1, 1882; also…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
This is an action of ejectment. The plaintiff was-formerly the owner of the lands. The defendant relies upon a divestiture of the plaintiff’s title by sales under tax judgments in 1882 to the defendant’s husband, such judgments being for the taxes for the year 1881. The plaintiff contends that the requirement of the statute, (Laws 1877, c. 6, § 37; Gen. St. 1878, c. 11, § 121,) as to the service of a notice of the expiration of the time for redemption, *23was never complied with. In June, 1887, the defendant’s husband presented to the county auditor his certificates of such tax-sales, and…
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