Plumb v. Robinson

The defendants in error, in December, 1858, filed their petition in the court of common pleas of Portage county, for the redemption, on behalf of the said Clarissa, of certain lands therein particularly described, and situated in that county, which had been, before that time, sold for taxes. The petition represented that the said Clarissa was, in the year 1820, and ever since continued to be, and still was, the owner of said lands, which had come to her by inheritance from her father, Joseph Metcalf, deceased; that said lands, consisting of fifty-nine acres, having become liable to sale for *299de…