Thompson v. Schoner

Citations

• 58 Wash. 642
• 109 P. 116
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 984

Syllabus

<p>Taxation—Process—Summons—Sufficiency. A tax foreclosure judgment is void where it was entered upon the service of a summons by publication which required the defendants to appear within sixty days after the service of the summons, instead of sixty days after the first publication.</p> <p>Deeds—Execution—Evidence to Contradict—Sufficiency. Evidence contradicting a certified copy of the record of a deed, and showing that the grantors did not in fact execute and acknowledge the same, must be “clear, cogent and convincing;” and is insufficient where it merely appears that one of the grantors, on an improper cross-examination, could not say whether she executed the deed, and she did not deny that she had acknowledged it, having left everything to her attorney, and the attorney testified that the deed had been executed and delivered for the purpose of conveying the title.</p>