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32 Ind. 379

Bowen v. Donovan

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1869

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1869-11-15

<p>Tax Title.—The fact that the owner of land sold for taxes owned! sufficient personal property, out of which the taxes might have been levied, during the year of the delinquency upon which the sale was made, avoids the tax title.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1935

2 state decisions

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Decided 1869-11-15

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Gregory, J.

¶1Donovan sued Bowen “for the recovery of real property.”

¶2It is claimed, that the deeds of conveyance under and by which Donovan claims to be the owner in fee of the property in controversy, do not describe it, and that there wms no evidence given on the trial to identify it with any description therein.

¶3"We have examined the deeds, and find the description ample to entitle the plaintiff to recover on his paper title without further proof.

¶4The appellant relied in the court below on a tax title. Donovan was the owner in fee, by a duly recorded deed of conveyance, of the property at the time it was assessed, and continued so to be up to and including the time of the trial below.

¶5It was shown in evidence that Donovan owned-abundance of personal, property, out of which the taxes against him might have been levied, during the year of the delinquency upon which the sale was made. This, as has been repeatedly held by this court, avoided the tax title.

¶6Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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