Dixon County v. Beardshear

The defendant in error recovered judgment against Dixon county, in the district court for said county, on the 24th day of November, 1891, for the sum of $140.18 and costs, which we are asked to reverse for reasons which will be hereafter noticed.

In the petition of the plaintiff below it is alleged that he was; on the 2d day of December, 1885, the owner of eighty *390acres of land in said county, which is fully described, and had paid and satisfied all taxes previously assessed against the same; that on the day last named he learned that his said laud had been sold for taxes claimed to be…