Burkam v. Kunz
Burkam v. Kunz
Opinion of the Court
The complaint is in two paragraphs. The first alleges that plaintiff is the owner in fee simple of the real estate described therein, that the defendants are asserting some claim adverse to the plaintiff’s title to said real estate, and asking that said title be quieted. The second prays that, should plaintiff’s title by tax deed prove invalid, the court decree foreclosure of plaintiff’s tax lien, and, in default of payment, the real estate described therein be sold and the proceeds be subjected to the payment of said tax deed. Defendants’ demurrer to the complaint was overruled, and the cause put at issue by general denial. Upon the trial the court found plaintiff’s tax deed to be ineffectual
The assignment of errors challenges the action of the court in overruling defendants’ motion for a new trial. The sufficiency of the evidence only is discussed in defendants’ brief.
The complaint, in substance, alleges that plaintiff purchased at a tax sale certain city lots and part of the northwest quarter of section fourteen and part of the northeast quarter of section fifteen, township five, range one, within the city of Lawreneeburg, bounded by certain lines and containing forty-three acres; that the taxes were duly levied and assessed against said lots as the property of Joseph K. Burkam, who “was the owner in fee simple;” that said taxes remained unpaid and became delinquent, and, after due notice, the city treasurer sold said lots to plaintiff for $1,149.11, the amount of the taxes, interest and penalty; that plaintiff paid the money, and in due time obtained a tax deed. This deed is made a part of the complaint and recites the same facts as before stated, except that the property is described as the city lots mentioned in the deeds, and also “thirty acres of land in corporation S. E. % section 15 township 5 range 1 32/100 of an acre S. E. 14 section 15 township 5 range 1 32/100 of an acre all of the above property situate in the city of Lawreneeburg, Dearborn county, Indiana.” The description in the deed was unpunctuated. Issue was formed by general denial without any plea of payment.
The tax deed was introduced in evidence. The evidence
Judgment affirmed.
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