When the affidavit described in section 448.15 is filed it shall be notice to all persons, and any person claiming any right, title, or interest in or to the parcel described adverse to the title or purported title by virtue of the tax deed referred to, shall file a claim with the county recorder of the county in which the parcel is located within one hundred twenty days after the filing of the affidavit, which claim shall set forth the nature of the interest, the time when and the manner in which the interest was acquired.
At the expiration of the period of one hundred twenty days, if no such claim has been filed, all persons shall thereafter be forever barred and estopped from having or claiming any right, title, or interest in the parcel adverse to the tax title or purported tax title, and no action shall thereafter be brought to recover the parcel, and the then tax-title owner or owner of the purported tax title shall also have acquired title to the parcel by adverse possession.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 448.16]
91 Acts, ch 191, §114
Referred to in § 448.17
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