Shumaker v. Tracy

MR. JUSTICE FREEBOURN:

P. J. Shumaker sued A. C. Tracy, his wife Mary Tracy and others, seeking to quiet title to certain land in Custer county, Montana. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, P. J. Shumaker, the defendants, A. C. Tracy and Mary Tracy, appeal.

The evidence shows that W. S. Jones, a resident of Sparta, Wisconsin, had been for many years, and was in 1934, the record owner of the northeast quarter of section 15, in township 9, north of range 55 east, in Custer county, the land involved in this appeal. The taxes on the land became delinquent for the year 1934, and Custer county, at…