Pappmeier v. Green Tree Acceptance, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE HEIPLE

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal requires us to decide whether a real estate tax certificate lien on property is superior to a perfected security interest lien on the same property. The trial court held that defendant Green Tree Acceptance, Inc.’s security interest lien took preference over plaintiff William M. Pappmeier’s tax certificate lien. The plaintiff appeals. We reverse.

The record shows that in October of 1983, Lyman and Connie Millizer purchased a mobile home. A certificate of title to the mobile home was issued by the Illinois Secretary of State…