Trulock v. Bentley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ringgold Circuit Court. Action to recover lands. After the answer of the defendants was filed, pleading equitable defenses, and praying that their title to the land be quieted, the cause was transferred to the chancery docket, and, upon a trial on the merits, a decree was rendered granting the relief prayed for by defendants. Plaintiff' appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Cii. J.
I. The action involves the validity of a tax deed, and the rights of defendant to plead the statute of limitations (Code, § 902) to the action. The plaintiff claims and shows title by a regular chain of conveyances from the patentee. The defendants’ title is based upon a tax sale and deed made after plaintiff had acquired the patent title.
II. Plaintiff insists that the tax title is invalid, for the reason that the record fails to show sufficient proof, required *603by the, statute, of the service of notice of the expiration of the time for redemption prescribed by Code, § 894. The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Adams v. GriffinSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
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