Johnson v. Bloomer

Rudolph Johnson, the former owner of the real estate involved herein, filed an action in the district court of Dewey county against S. L. Bloomer and Morris Schuman for the purpose of canceling a resale tax deed and quieting title to the land. It appears that Bloomer bought the land at the resale in 1936 and thereafter conveyed to Schuman.

In plaintiff’s amended petition he set out one general and seven specific instances of invalidity of the tax deed. The defendants defended generally and sought to have their title quieted in the cross-petition.

At the beginning of the trial, the parties…