I. The petition shows that both parties claim under different tax titles. Plaintiff’s title is based upon a tax sale made March 16, 1863, for. the taxes of 1860. The treasurer’s deed was executed March 21, 1866. Plaintiff alleges in his petition, that defendant’s tax title is based upon a tax sale and deed, made subsequently to the sale and deed under which he claims, for taxes of the year 1859. It is also averred that defendant’s intestate instituted an aetion against plaintiff’s grantor to quiet the title of the lands in him; that since service of notice was had by publication and more than two years have elapsed since judgment therein was rendered, granting the relief prayed for by the plaintiff in that action. It is alleged that this judgment was obtained by fraud, because the treasurer of the county bad no right to sell the land for the
"We need not determine whether the facts alleged in plaintiff’s petition as fraudulent, if established, would have avoided defendant’s title. The abstract before us utterly fails to show that they were proved to the court. It shows that all the evidence introduced by the plaintiff was the tax deed and the conveyance from the grantee therein to himself. It then proceeds to state that all the evidence offered by defendant was the decree quieting the title in him, or rather in his intestate. The decree, it is admitted, was regularly obtained, proper proof of service by publication, etc., appearing by the files. But the abstract fails to show that defendant’s tax deed, which was admitted to have been made on the 22d day of March, 1867, was upon a sale for taxes becoming delinquent prior to 1860, the year in which the taxes, for which the land was sold to plaintiff’s grantor, became delinquent. Eor all that appears in the abstract the sale under which defendant claims title may have been for the taxes of a year subsequent to 1860. The abstract utterly fails to show the facts of which plaintiff complains and which he alleges constitute the fraud in the case.
Affirmed.