37 Mo. 483 | Mo. | 1866
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment upon a tax title. The plaintiff produced in evidence two tax deeds, executed by the State Register of Lands, the one to Amelia Welcker, and the other to A. Welcker and A. Stierlin, as purchasers at the sales for taxes; and the deeds, dated March 12, 1868, were executed by the Register of Lands under his seal of office, and were recorded without having been acknowledged. He also offered in evidence a tax deed of the date of May 7,1863, executed by the comptroller of the City of St. Louis to Amelia Welcker, purchaser at the sale, under the seal of the corporation, signed by him, and attested by the city register, duly acknowledged by the comptroller, and recorded. Some other evidence was introduced, and the plaintiff asked the court to instruct the jury as follows:
1. That the tax deeds executed by the Register of Lands of the State of Missouri, if genuine, are prima facie evidence of title in fee simple in the purchasers therein named.
2. That the tax deed executed by George K. Budd, comptroller of the City of St. Louis, if genuine, is prima facie evidence of title in fee simple in the purchaser therein mentioned. ,
These instructions being refused, the plaintiff took a non-suit, with leave to move to set the same aside.
The Revenue Act of 1867 (§ 33) requires the Register of
The other instruction proceeds upon the forty-third section of the same act of 1857, which declared that “all tax deeds for lots or lands sold under ordinances of the City of St. Louis for the non-payment of taxes due said city, shall be received in like manner, and shall have the same force and effect, when recorded, as State tax deeds in this article provided
On the case made, we think both instructions were rightly refused.
Judgment affirmed.
Motion for re-hearing overruled.