Brown v. Davis

By this action the plaintiff in error sought a decree quieting title in her as against the defendant in error to certain Sterling city lots. It was stipulated that she was in possession of the lots, and the record owner thereof, unless her title was divested by a tax deed issued to defendant in error. The controversy arises over alleged irregularities in the proceedings leading up to the issuance of the tax deed. It conclusively appears that at the time the application for the deed was made and prior and subsequent thereto, one Mary Lou White, as tenant from month to month of plaintiff in…