Goodnow v. Litchfield
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. Action in chancery for an accounting and to recover for certain sums of money paid by plaintiff in satisfaction of taxes levied upon certain lands, the titles whereof he, at the time, in good faith claimed, but which, by certain adjudications of the courts, were afterwards declared to be in defendant. The petition also claims a lien upon the lands, and its enforcement for the sum found due plaintiff.
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Appeal from Webster District Court. Action in chancery for an accounting and to recover for certain sums of money paid by plaintiff in satisfaction of taxes levied upon certain lands, the titles whereof he, at the time, in good faith claimed, but which, by certain adjudications of the courts, were afterwards declared to be in defendant. The petition also claims a lien upon the lands, and its enforcement for the sum found due plaintiff. Upon the final hearing of the cause, a decree was entered in favor of plaintiff for the amount of the taxes paid, with interest from the day of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The plaintiff alleges in his petition that in 1863 the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company conveyed certain lands, describing them, all situated in "Webster eounty, to the Iowa Homestead Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this state, which, in good faith, and in the belief that it held the title to the lands, paid the taxes assessed thereon from the date of the conveyance to the year 1872, amounting to the sum of $3,819.45. These taxes were paid as they became due for the years intervening between the dates named. It is averred that the defendant was the real owner of the…
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