Marshall v. Raber
Marshall v. Raber
Opinion of the Court
This action was brought to quiet title to real estate. Trial was had before the court without, a jury. Findings and conclusions in favor of plaintiff were rendered, and judgment entered thereon. Defendant asked for a new trial, and, the same having been denied, appealed from the judgment and order denying a new trial.
Both parties claim title from-one John Cooper; plaintiff claiming through a quit-claim deed from Cooper, dated May, 1902, and recorded that year, as well as through a warranty deed from Coop'er, dated in August, 1902, but not recorded'until after this
Among other things the court found: That the deed purporting to run from Cooper to' Smith, while executed, was never delivered, and that Cooper never received any consideration therefor; that after date of such deed, until deed to plaintiff, Cooper paid the taxes on the land; that plaintiff took his deeds in ignorance of the deed to Smith, and took possession under such deeds; that plaintiff paid the taxes from time of his deeds, except that defendant paid one instalment of the 1906 tax; that plaintiff knew nothing of the deed from Cooper to Smith until about November, 1903; that, when Brock took his deed, the records showed two actions brought by Smith to quiet title to the land; and that both actions had been dismissed, and the abstract furnished defendant when he purchased showed lis pendens filed in the above actions, as well as the deed to plaintiff. The court found that no title passed by the deed from Cooper to Smith, that title passed to plaintiff through his deeds, that both Brock and defendant purchased with full notice of plaintiff’s rights, -and that neither Brock nor defendant acquired any rights to' said land.
Appellant has assigned numerous errors, most of them raising' the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the several findings. Among the findings excepted to is the one to" the effect that the deed from Cooper to Smith was never delivered. While the evidence was conflicting, there certainly was ample to warrant the trial court in making this finding; there being, not only the evidence of Cooper proving facts showing no delivery, but the undisputed fact that Smith never took possession, never paid taxes, and did not record his deed for six years.
Complaint is made of the receipt in evidence of a letter from A. B. Smith to Cooper, dated in April, 1903, and which would tend to show that Cooper had not sold the land to the wife of
There was no other error in the rulings upon admission of evidence, the findings' were amply supported by the evidence, and such findings are clearly sufficient to support the conclusions and judgment.
The judgment and order denying a new trial are affirmed.
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