Real v. County of Kern

In this action plaintiff sought to recover the sum of $1,440.82, which sum, in addition to accrued taxes, interest, costs, and penalties, he, in January, 1911, paid into the county treasury of Kern County as the purchase price of certain land then sold and conveyed to him by the state, title to which land it claimed to have acquired by reason of delinquency in the payment of taxes thereon for the fiscal year 1904 and proceedings thereafter had and taken pursuant to law.

Thereafter, in December, 1913, an action was instituted involving the validity of the deed so received by plaintiff, wherein…