Murphy v. Redeker

Citations

• 16 S.D. 615
• 94 N.W. 697
• 1903 S.D. LEXIS 133

Syllabus

<p>Under Laws 1891, p. 78, c. 24, § 1, providing that every person in the actual possession oi lands under claim and color of title who shall have continued for 10 successive years in such possession, and shall also during said time have paid taxes on such lands, shall be adjudged to be the legal owner, etc., a failure to pay the taxes for any one year within the year for which the tax is levied is not fatal to a claim of title under the statute; a payment of all legal taxes during ten successive years being a substantial compliance therewith, although an annual assessment becomes delinquent, and is not paid until the following year.</p>