Choat v. Phelps

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

The defendant in error commenced this action in the district court of Pawnee county, against plhintiffs in error to quiet the title to the •southeast quarter of section 5, township 23, range 15 west, in said county, alleging that he was the ■owner and in actual possession, and that defendants therein claimed to have some interest or title to said real estate adverse to his, and praying that the title be quieted in him. To this petition the defendants answered, setting up a tax deed issued October 14, 1896, for the unpaid taxes of 1892, and…