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Title: Curtis v. Whitney
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1871
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 51 KB

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Mr. E. H. Ellis, for the plaintiff in error: A tax sale of which the tax certificate is the evidence has been decided, by the courts of Wisconsin2 , to be a contract between the State of Wisconsin and the county making the sale on the one part and the purchaser on the other. By the provisions of this contract Mrs. Curtis was entitled to a deed in three years from the date of the sale (May 11th, 1865), subject only to one condition, viz.: 'unless sooner redeemed.' Nearly two years thereafter, viz., April 10th, 1867, an act of the legislature was passed by which the party of the second part was required to perform an additional service, involving both time, labor, and expense, in order to obtain the fulfilment of her contract. This requirement did, in our opinion, impair the obligation of the contract made at the time of the tax-sale.