Silcott v. McCarty
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. Action to recover' upon tbe warranty of a deed for land. The cause was tried to a jury, and a verdict rendered for plaintiff under direction of the court, and judgment accordingly. Defendant appeals.. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The plaintiff seeks to recover, upon the warranty of a deed executed to him by defendant, the amount paid by him to redeem the land from a tax sale.
The point in controversy between the parties involves the validity of the sale of the lands for personal taxes levied upon the property of a copartnership, the land being assessed to one of the partners, and the tax against the partnership property being transferred to the partner to whom the land was assessed, and who, as the pleadings show, owned it. We - gather from the very obscure abstracts, and the equally obscure statement of facts made…
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