Waggoner v. Mann
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jackson District Court. — Hon. Andrew Howat, Judge, Action in chancery to quiet the title of certain lands in the plaintiff. There was a decree granting the relief prayed for in the petition, from which the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, C. J.
*181. Tax title: fraud of agent: limitation of actions. *17I. Under the pleadings, original and amended, which need not be set out or recited, the *18plaintiffs claim title to the land under tax deeds and a sheriff’s deed. Defendants-claim as heirs of Richard Mann, who died in 1855. He held the fee-simple title to the land, and devised a life-estate therein to his wife, Eliza Mann, who, in 1858 or 1859, intermarried with one Spicer, and removed from the state, and never afterwards returned. It is alleged in the defendants’ answer and cross-bill that she died in 1881. We discover no evidence showing the…
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