Harrison v. Coomber Realty & Investment Co.

Action to set aside a Jones-Munger law tax deed to 40 acres of land in Clay County; the deed was executed by the collector on November 24, 1944; the trial court denied the relief sought and plaintiff appealed.

In 1871 appellant's father devised the land to her and her bodily heirs, hence she had a life estate only; appellant at the time of the trial was past 80 and had no descendants. The land is described in the petition as the NW¼ NW¼ of Sec. 11, Twp. 50, range 33, and in the brief appellant says that the land "is a square forty acre tract on the top of the Missouri River bluff north of…