Lougee v. Wilson

Appeal from a decree in favor of the plaintiff, and setting aside a tax deed, in an action under the code to quiet title to one-half of a quarter-section of vacant and unoccupied land.

The contention is that, as the plaintiff introduced a deed of trust (the grantor in which, it was stipulated, was the patentee), and the trustee’s deed following the same, as proof of title, it was necessary for him to prove that the trustee, The Nebraska Loan & Trust Company, was a corporation, that it was authorized to hold and convey the title, as trustee, and, also, that it had complied with the laws of this…