Brookfield v. Rock Island Improvement Co.

So far as concerns the issues before this court, the facts of this case are' as follows:

The Rock Island Improvement Company sued J. C. Brookfield alleging that, under a bona fide claim of title, it had paid taxes for many years on lands owned by Brookfield. It asked judgment for such taxes, with interest; for a lien on the land to secure the payment of the judgment, and for a foreclosure of such lien.

Brookfield’s answer "expressly pleads the statute of limitations in bar of plaintiff’s right of .recovery.” Brookfield later filed a plea, which he styled "Exceptions to Depositions and Amendment…