19 S.D. 469 | S.D. | 1905
Lead Opinion
This is an action to determine adverse claims to certain real property. The appeal is from an order denying defendant’s application for a new trial. The plaintiff owns the property in controversy unless it was transferred to the defendants by certain tax deeds, recorded more than three years prior to the commencement of this suit. The learned circuit
The court below, having found that there was no assessment of the property for the years 1886 to 1895, inclusive, decided, that the property should be reassessed for those years; that defendant W. R. Thomas should recover such amount as should appear to be legally due him for the year 1886; that defendant Esther Thomas should recover such amount as should appear to be legally due her for the years 1887 to 1892, inclusive, and that defendant Morris should recover such amount as should appear to be legally due him for the years 1893 to 1895, inclusive, and the amounts paid by him as taxes, with legal interest for the years 1896 to 1900, inclusive. This adjustment of the taxes was authorized by the statute, and no tender of the amounts paid by the defendants was necessary before beginning the action. Rev. Pol. Code, § 2225; Clark v. Darlington, 7 S. D. 148, 63 N. W. 771; Salmer v. Lathrop, 10 S. D. 216, 72 N. W. 570; Clark v. Darlington, 11 S. D. 418, 78 N. W. 997; Campbell v. Loan & Trust Co., 14 S. D. 483, 85 N. W. 1015. Finding no reversible error, the order appealed from is affirmed.
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting). To me it seems clear that my associates have overlooked the fact that the statute had not