Paying property taxes on a building for years on end does not guarantee ownership in my county here in Iowa. We had a case where a landowner was paying property taxes on a corner of his property where an old country school was sitting and the land and building unknowingly was owned by the township. Many years ago when classes were discontinued in the school there was a screwup at the courthouse and the county started sending the adjacent landowner tax bills for the schoolhouse property but the land was never formally transferred to the landowner. The township, who was the original owner continued to use the building as a voting house as it had been doing for years. Several years ago voting was discontinued in the building and it sat unused. The adjacent landowner, thinking he owned it because he had been paying taxes on it for so may years promised the school building to a museum and he had a moving company put it up on blocks to get it ready for moving. A township trustee drove by and saw the school up on blocks and asked the other trustees why their school was up on blocks. To make a long and confusing story short the landowner,who had been paying taxes on it for many, many years had to put the building back down on a new foundation at his expense. I'm pretty sure the taxes he paid for years were reimbursed somehow. It's now sitting there on a new foundationwith new wooden steps and a wheelchair ramp but it's still empty. It was strange and confusing so I hope I got the story straight but that's the general gist of it.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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