Dewing v. Woods

Citations

• 111 F. 575
• 49 C.C.A. 443
• 1901 U.S. App. LEXIS 4404

Syllabus

<p>Quieting Title—Right of Action—Title of Plaintiff.</p> <p>A court of equity cannot entertain a bill to remove a cloud upon the title to real estate without clear proof of both possession and legal title in the complainant; and where the hill itself shows that taxes were assessed against the land which were not paid, that it was sold for such delinquent taxes and purchased by the stale, and that a decree has been entered by a state court adjudging the title to be in the state, and asks, among other tilings, that the sale of Lhe land as directed by such decree be enjoined, it fails to slate a case upon which a federal court of equity can grant relief.1</p>