Crum v. Cotting
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Court. Action in equity to bar right of redemption as against a junior incumbrancer. The material facts, in their chronological order, are as follows: William P; Doty was the owner of lot six in block eighty-four, of Iowa City, and, together with his wife, Harriet Doty, was in the actual occupancy thereof as their homestead, -at the date first hereinafter mentioned.
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Appeal from Johnson District Court. Action in equity to bar right of redemption as against a junior incumbrancer. The material facts, in their chronological order, are as follows: William P; Doty was the owner of lot six in block eighty-four, of Iowa City, and, together with his wife, Harriet Doty, was in the actual occupancy thereof as their homestead, -at the date first hereinafter mentioned. November 24, 1851, said Doty borrowed of the university fund (through the State treasurer) $150, and, to secure the payment thereof, five years thereafter, with interest, gave his note for said sum,…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The facts in this case are exceedingly complicated. It may well be doubted whether the chronological order of stating the facts, as above adopted, is the most perspicuous; and yet, therefrom, a person desiring to do so, may very easily ascertain the facts bearing upon tiie questions discussed in this opinion, as well as the many questions made by the counsel in the case, but which are not herein discussed.
1. tax saee : nature of tas title. The leading question involved in the case, • because decisive of it if held for the plaintiff, is, whether the holder of a tax deed succeeds thereunder and…
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