Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 75 - Land sold for taxes.
75.29 - Actions of ejectment, when barred.

75.29 Actions of ejectment, when barred.
(1) Subject to sub. (2), no action to quiet title, to remove a cloud on title; to cancel, to annul or to set aside any tax deed; of ejectment, of trespass, of waste or for other injury to land shall be brought as to lands purporting to be conveyed by a tax deed void on its face after the expiration of 3 years from the time of the recording of the deed.
(2) The limitation period under sub. (1) does not apply unless each of the following occurs:
(a) The original owner or those claiming under the original owner have failed to pay or redeem all of the taxes levied on the lands from the time of the levy of the tax for the nonpayment of which the tax deed was issued to the time of the recording of the tax deed.
(b) The grantee in the tax deed or those claiming under the grantee in the tax deed have paid or redeemed all of the taxes levied on the lands for the 3 years after the recording of the tax deed.
History: 1991 a. 316; 1997 a. 253.

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