U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota September 15, 1880 (Shearer v. Corbin)

Nelson, I). J.

The suit first entitled is an action in ejectment, and to the complaint the defendant interposes a general denial, and also sots up specially, as a further defence, the proceedings which resulted in a sale of the land in controversy to the defendant’s grantor for non-payment of taxes, and a tax deed, dated October 6, 1869, from the county auditor of the property claimed as