Potter v. Brown County

This action was to set aside and cancel certain tax certificates on the plaintiff’s land, and enjoin the issuing of tax deeds thereon, on the ground of the assessment being illegal and void, and other defects in the proceedings going to the groundwork of the tax. There was no appearance or answer. There is no hill of exceptions, and whether the court had any evidence before it or not, we cannot know; but it must be presumed it had, if necessary; but under the second subdivision óf sec. 2891, R. S., no evidence is necessary in such case, except to enable the court to give judgment. There were…