Huber v. Pickler
Supreme Court of Missouri
.Error to Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Andbew Ellison, Judge. (1) If tbe state bad a lien against plaintiff’s land on January 1, 1877, it was removed by payment of tbe tax on February 23, 1877. Blackwell on-Tax Titles [2 Ed.] 412 ; R. S. 1879, secs. 6835, 6843. Tax receipt was also presented after judgment and before sale, and so entered on tbe back-tax book. A sale for taxes for a year in wbicb it is shown tbe land was twice assessed and tbe tax once paid is invalid.
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.Error to Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Andbew Ellison, Judge. (1) If tbe state bad a lien against plaintiff’s land on January 1, 1877, it was removed by payment of tbe tax on February 23, 1877. Blackwell on-Tax Titles [2 Ed.] 412 ; R. S. 1879, secs. 6835, 6843. Tax receipt was also presented after judgment and before sale, and so entered on tbe back-tax book. A sale for taxes for a year in wbicb it is shown tbe land was twice assessed and tbe tax once paid is invalid. Payner v. Lee, 20 Mich. 384. (2) Tbe assessor having failed to verify the assessment list, as prescribed by statute, is fatal…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, C. J.
This suit is by ejectment to recover the possession of the north half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township sixty-one, range sixteen, in Adair county, in which judgment was rendered for defendant and from which plaintiff has prosecuted writ of error.
It appears from the evidence that previous to 1870, one Comstock owned the land in dispute, and in that' year, conveyed it to one P. A. Lee, who remained the owner till January 5, 1878, when he conveyed it to one Jackman, who owned it till the tenth of September, 1878, when, for the consideration of five hundred dollars, he…
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