Richardson v. Halbekann

The court’s opinion seems to me to be sound and in harmony with modern judicial thought. There was a time when, notwithstanding the recitals in a tax deed showing compliance with the law, one claiming under the deed was required to present independent proof of the performance of all the conditions precedent to the issuance of the deed. That fact, coupled with the strict requirements of the law as pronounced by courts, made it so difficult to sustain tax titles as to discourage bidders at tax sales, and this was so detrimental to the public interest that legislatures and courts alike began to…