Cobb v. City of Willmar

This is an action to recover damages to real and personal property caused by defendant city’s allegedly unlawful demolition of a dwelling house and garage. Defendants1 claim that the state owned the property by virtue of a forfeiture for nonpayment of taxes, and that the state, through action of the county board, gave the city permission to raze *463the buildings. Plaintiff basically claims that defendants acted improperly because the forfeiture proceedings were invalid, and because, in any event, the county board had given him the right to repurchase the property when defendants demolished the…