| Show I 1 ari re cov byg rim I 1 by that act afis owner af the animal lost I 1 a valuable tract of land neer lork bones in september 1871 jones a farmer of oneida county purchased at a tax sale A tract of acres of land ili the WA n of allegheny this tito tract wits wild B tu barren and lead been abandoned by its former 0 nor jones wito was a mail q small means paid for the lot an ia on looking over tile property made up leis ignited that it wag no worth putting any more money in and ko paid no more attention to the pur c team beyond securing tile tax deed bilich give a r fitle to tile lana on tholf 2 ted 0 t F c p to anber 1873 two years r t h 0 t me of chose accord ingAo tile now york law of tax sales in 18 ia petrol cum was discovered in allemany allegany Alle gany and the fo amor owner of ahe tract jones lead purchased roe control of it and leased it to tile bradford oil company jones knew nothing about this transaction until IM when tile tract lead ten large producing wells on it and lead yielded many thousands of barrels of oil aich lead been sold for tit profit of tile oil com ivany the territory was then blued at jones at once began proceedings prote edings fit the county court to recover of him land and an ac countin for tile oil oil tile strength of ills tax cod th a oil company d jones title to the property on the clatto of tile law which makes deeds invalid if tile purchaser does not servo on the occupant of the promises bought at tax sales notice to redeem tile samo mathin t W 0 tito oil company claimed t list dilill tile former owner of the tract was occupying t ito promises M lien tit J knoo ardro ce redemption not I 1 ce and the occupancy was amod on ti to novel point of law that billion it the owner was not t 0 tract lie lad left a city of bay in a shanty on the ce tilis was tile entire defence to the suit and ties county court decided that if the simple fact of there being hay on tile place as claimed could be established it would be am plo proof of legal aeu id would destro joness title pact tit ro perty tile arr a I 1 restel ted in favo r 0 aho oil company ili 1881 A now trial was granted and jones proved by six witnesses that on the ad of septembers Septem bero 1973 one day bo fore ile became entitled to the tax deed caw had entered the shanty and eaten all the hay that ifill had left there thus depriving him of legal domicile and leaving no one in cw pancy on redemption natice could be served by that act of cow and by that alone I 1 jones tit ioto the valai ible property was established and lie was div n a verdict tito defendants obtained an order for a third the alleged di geover evidence but jones WAS again tile oil company carried tile case to the general berm M here the judg 1 ent was the baso was th e ni taken to the court of appeals where and effort was ina do to have the rea versed on tile ground fit tax sale law was unconstitutional ties court of appeals has just handed dow n an I 1 n I 1 0 n sustaining the decision of tile OF ower coll rt q and jones will re caico newly for the oil that te property during its losses won by tile bradford oil Wire pany |
