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RITTER v. ROSS

No. 92-2220.

992 F.2d 750 (1993)

Elmer RITTER and Helen Ritter, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Peggy S. ROSS, County Treasurer for Rock County, Wisconsin, Stephen D. Meyer, Corporate Counsel for Rock County, Wisconsin and Rock County, a body politic in the State of Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Greenwald, Ann T. Dempsey (argued), Greenwald, Connolly, Oliver, Close & Worden, Rockford, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas A. Schroeder, Robert Heidel (argued), Office of the Corp. Counsel, Janesville, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Before COFFEY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

"For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost." George Herbert, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 270 (Emily M. Beck ed., 15th ed. 1980). And for want of $84, a homesite was lost. Specifically, for allegedly failing to pay $84.43 in back taxes, Elmer and Helen Ritter may have permanently lost thirty-eight acres in Rock County, Wisconsin.

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