Worden v. Cole

Citations

• 74 Kan. 226
• 86 P. 464
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 41

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Tax Deed — Void on Its Face — Separate Tracts Sold in Bulk. A tax deed which shows a sale of several separate and distinct tracts of land in bulk for a gross sum is void on its face.</p> <p>2. - Defective Description Not Cured by Act to Legalize Compromise of Delinquent Taxes. Chapter 242 of the Laws of 1901, purporting to legalize the acts of the county officers of Hamilton county in the compromise of delinquent taxes for the years 1892 to 1900, inclusive, cannot cure a defective description in a tax deed issued by such officers during the year 1894 for the delinquent taxes of 1886, 1887 and 1888.</p> <p>3. Evidence — Judicial Notice. This court will take judicial notice of the permanent location of an important line of railroad which traverses the state upon a firmly established route, and that certain lands conveyed to the railway company by patent from the state by authority of an act of congress are within the limits of such permanent location and a part of I the lands granted to the railway company.</p>