Havel v. Decatur County Abstract Co.

Citations

• 76 Kan. 336
• 91 P. 790
• 1907 Kan. LEXIS 261

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Tax Deed — Recorded Five Years — Statutory Recitals — Construction. A tax deed which has been recorded more than five years and under which the purchaser and his grantee have since its issuance been in the actual, continuous possession of the land, making valuable improvements thereon, will not he held void on its face by reason of not being in the exact form prescribed by the statute, provided all the essential facts prescribed in the statutory form are, by a fair construction of the language of the deed, therein recited.</p> <p>2. - Residence of Purchaser. The residence of the purchaser who is named in a tax deed and who is not fictitious is not, in a legal sense, a recital therein, and the omission thereof will not render the deed void upon its face.</p>