Legal Opinion

McCrossen v. Harris

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1886PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Error from Wyandotte District Court. Action brought by McCrossen against Harris and others, to recover taxes paid by plaintiff upon certain lots, and to have the same declared a lien thereon. Judgment for defendants at the December Term, 1884. The plaintiff brings the case here. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Horton, C. J.:

Edmond Harris and his wife Maria, on June 2, 1880, executed a mortgage to R. D. McCrossen upon lots 3 and 4, in block 94, in the city of Wyandotte, in this state, to secure the payment of a note for $275 with interest. On January 3, 1883, McCrossen obtained a judgment of foreclosure of the mortgage, and in the judgment the taxes then due on the premises were decreed to be a lien thereon. It was *179also provided in the decree that if McCrossen should pay such .taxes, he should be repaid out of the sale of the property. Appraisement having…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Vincent v. MooreMichigan Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Johnson v. PayneNebraska Supreme Court · 1881

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Berke v. Home Owners' Loan Corp.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1943
  2. Aetna Building & Loan Ass'n v. ReverendSupreme Court of Kansas · 1936
  3. Government Building & Loan Institution v. RichardsIndiana Court of Appeals · 1903
  4. Ray v. National BankCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1899

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