Whitney v. Stevens

In this case, defendant in error filed his bill to quiet the title to 160 acres of land.

The bill alleges that he, in June, 1860, became the purchaser of the laud ata sale for taxes; that the time for a redemption having expired, he, on the 16th day of February, 1864, obtained a tax deed for the laud; that at the time he procured the tax deed, the land was vacant and unoccupied, and so remained for seven years successively after the execution of the deed, and that he paid all the taxes, of every description, during the seven successive years aforesaid, against the land, and after the…