Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-05-21


las county, duplicate copy of which
lease is now on file in the Office of the
county clerk.
Therefore Be 1t Resolved by the
county board of supervisors that the
action of said special committee be
and the same is in all ways approved
and ratified, and the chairman of this
board and the county clerk are hereby
empowered and directed to draw and
issue county orders to said leasors
monthly in payment of the rent as
provided by the terms of said lease.
Dated April 30th, 1919.
Signed, Frank w. Carter, supervisor.
On motion the foregoing resolution
was adopted.
PETITION
To the Honorable, the county board
of supervisors of Villas County, Wis
consin.
Gentlemen:
Your petitioner, the Pabst Brewing
Company, by Geo. E. O'Connor re-
spectfully sets forth and shows the
following facts:
That prior to June, 1886, Ann
| O'Connor was the owner of the south
west quarter of the southeast quarter
of section %, in town 40 N. of range
10 east, in Villas county and in the
town of Eagle River; that in June,
1886, the said Ann O'Connor plated
the south part of said description and
recorded the same as Ann O'Connor's
/ 4 Ho ~ 10
River; that thereafter and prior to
March, 1902, said Ann O'Connor con-
veyed to Mcintyre & Brown the re-
naming and unplatted portion of said
government description of land that
after recording of the plat of Ann
| O'Connor's First addition the same
was assessed and taxed as village lots
and blocks, and the unplatted portion
was assessed as such unplatted por-
| tion of said government description;
that after the conveyance by said Ann
| o, Connor the Mcintyre & Brown paid
the taxes of said description, and so
paid the taxes for 1901 as evidenced
by the Town Treasurer's tax receipt
No 461 for that year; that said Mcln-
tyre & Brown plated in March, 1894.
the lands so conveyed to them and re-
corded said plat as McIntyre's Addi-
ton to the village of Eagle River; that
| in July, 1894, said Mcintyre q Brown
conveyed to Mart Hirzel lots, IA and
10 of block of said McIntyre's addi-
ton; that thereafter and on or about
August 9th, 1895, said Matt Hirzel
executed and delivered to your petit
toner mortgage covering said lots
IA and Is of block 2;
That although the taxes for the
year 1901 had been paid as herein
above set forth, the said description
appeared on the county treasurer s
list of lands returned delinquent for
unpaid taxes for the year 1901 and
were sold by said county treasurer in
the sale of 1902 and tax certificate No.
| 1902 issued to the Home Investment
Company the purchaser at that sale;
that thereafter and on May 81, 1905,
| the State of Wisconsin and Villas
county executed and delivered to G.
T Sanborn Company, as assignee OF
Home Investment Company, a tax
deed covering the said Government
description, o-wit: The southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter OF
section %, town 10 north, range 10
east, and that tax deed appears on
record in the office of the register of
deeds of Villas county in block IA OF
deeds on page 147;
That thereafter and on or about De-
cember 3, 1908, petition for the can
collation. of said tax deed, insofar as
it affected said southwest quarter OF
the southeast quarter of section %,
town 40 north, range 10 east and the
county board OF supervisors on said
day did CANCEL and set aside said deed
and prayed for IN said petition;
That no certificate of the cancella-
ton of said tax deed was ever execut>
ed and delivered by the county clerk
as provided by section 11S4a of the
Wisconsin Statutes; and that no GER
tiicate of such cancel Iation has ever
been recorded in the Office of the leg
lister of deeds of Villas county;
That by reason of the failure of said
county clerk so to execute and deliver
Sald Certlncate OF Such cancellation Of
said tax deed the tax deed issued to
the q. F. Sanborn company as herein
above set forth, and recorded in the
office of the register of deeds in book
IA of deeds on page 147 as herein
above set forth purports that the title
to said government description OF
land still is in said G. F. Sanborn
company and its grantees and consti-
tutes a cloud on the title of said Mart
Hirzel to the injury of your petition
| er;
Wherefore your petitioner prays
that your honorable body cancel the
tax deed executed by the state of Wis
consin and Villas county to g. F. San
born company, dated May 27, 1905,
and recorded May 20, 1905, in book
! Ia of deeds on pare l47. of the Villas