Crocker v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““(1) A stipulation to the effect ‘that the plaintiff was, at the commencement of the suit, the owner of the lands and premises described in the complaint, except in so far as the said lands and premises might be affected and incumbered by the liens asserted by the defendant, based on the tax certificates and proceedings mentioned in the answer/ etc.; that ‘at the time the tax certificate and deeds hereinafter mentioned were executed, the property was assessed to the predecessors in interest of the plaintiff/ and ‘that since the year 1888 the taxes upon said property had been paid by said plaintiff/ from which it is to be inferred that the plaintiff and his predecessors have been continuously the owners and in possession of the land since the assessment for the fiscal year 1882 (Pol. Code, § 3628), or at least that the court was authorized so to find. (2) The certificates of tax sales in question introduced in evidence by defendant, with stipulation of due record and assignment to him, which it is stated, were regular in form.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harnden v. Fitch

2. ““We do not doubt that, in view of the laches of the defendant in asserting his alleged liens during a period of from 12 to 14 years, the court was justified in quieting the plaintiff’s title, without requiring them to be paid; thus leaving the defendant to his legal rights.’’ •”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harnden v. Fitch