Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 75.27 (2026)
Limitation on former owner
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75.2775.27 Limitation on former owner. No action shall be maintained by the former owner or any person claiming under the former owner to recover the possession of any land or any interest therein which shall have been conveyed by deed for the nonpayment of taxes or to avoid such deed against any person claiming under such deed unless such action shall be brought within 3 years next after the recording of such deed. Whenever any such action shall be commenced upon any tax deed heretofore or hereafter issued after the expiration of 3 years from the date of the recording of such deed, such deed, if executed substantially in the form prescribed by law for the execution of tax deeds, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence and legality of all proceedings from and including the assessment of the property for taxation up to and including the execution of such deed.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1933–1981 · leading case: Swanke v. Oneida Cnty., 60 N.W.2d 756 (Wis. 1953).
Swanke v. Oneida Cnty., 60 N.W.2d 756 (Wis. 1953). “" Sec. 75.27, Stats., during all of said period prior to the 1939 amendment, provided for a three-year statute of limitations on the part of the former owner, or any person claiming under him, to recover possession of any land which had been conveyed by tax deed, such three-year…”
Kidder v. Pueschner, 247 N.W. 315 (Wis. 1933). “However, the description in the tax deed and on the tax roll being sufficient, the deed conveyed the Coffin title and is immune from attack by Coffin or any one claiming under him under sec. 75.27, Stats., which excludes such attack unless made within three years from the…”
Preston v. Iron Cnty., 314 N.W.2d 131 (Wis. Ct. App. 1981). “See also §§ 75.27, 75.28(3), 75.29, Stats; Dupen v.”
Wiley v. Grindey, 32 N.W.2d 331 (Wis. 1948). “Defendants next contend that this was an action to set aside a tax deed and that under sec. 75.27, Stats., it must be brought within three years after the recording of the tax deed.”
Johnson v. Pofahl, 58 N.W.2d 648 (Wis. 1953). “26 was only intended to apply in an ejectment action brought against the former owner or one claiming under him, and that only the former owner or one claiming under him can avail himself of the limitation.”
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