65 Iowa 303 | Iowa | 1884
OPINION ON REHEARING.
I. This cause has again been submitted to us on a petition for a rehearing. It is urged that the evidence in the case does not show that the land was taxed to the defendant when the notice was served, and that as to the forty-acre tract sold to Zelie no notice was necessary; and the case of Fuller v. Armstrong, 53 Iowa, 683, is relied upon as supporting the claim made. The abstract shows that the land was assessed and taxed to the defendant in 1875, the year for which it was sold for taxes. It also appears that the defendant’s title to the land was then of record. The plaintiff seeks to quiet his tax title. If the land was taxed to the defendant, it was incumbent on the plaintiff to give the notice required by law. This he attempted to do, but the notice was insufficient. It being conceded that the patent title to the land was in the defendant, and that the same was taxed to him in 1875, it should be presumed that no change was made in the ownership, and in the name in which it was taxed. Especially should this be so in view-of the fact that the plaintiff attempted to give notice to defendant, and obtained his tax deed by a showing that he had given notice, and .in view of the further fact that he seeks by this action to quiet his title as against the defendant. This is an admission that the defendant is the owner of the patent title, and if there was no change of title it is fair to presume that no change was made in the name in which the land was taxed.
For original opinion see 63 Iowa, 675.