Saum v. Dewey

Citations

• 84 Kan. 811
• 115 P. 570
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 421

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Court — Judicial Notice — Public Law. A court will take judicial notice of a public law in effect generally throughout the limits of its territorial jurisdiction.</p> <p>2. Tax Deeds — Judicial Notice — Public Law. Where a tax deed is offered in evidence judicial notice will be taken of the adoption of the provisions of chapter 162 of the Laws of 1891 by the county in which the deed is issued.</p> <p>:3. -Purchase by County — Presumptions. ' It will be presumed that a tax sale upon which a deed is issued in a county where the provisions of chapter 162 of the Laws of 1891 have been adopted was made under the provisions of that act, where the deed recites that the property was bid off by the county treasurer and the deed has been of record more than five years, although there is no recital in the deed that the provisions of that act have been adopted in the county, and no recital that “at the place aforesaid, said .property could not be sold for the amount of tax and charges thereon, and was therefore bid off by the county treasurer for said county” (Laws 1876, ch. 34, §138).</p>