Cota v. McDermott

This is an action to quiet title. Plaintiff claims under a deed from Bolette County, which in turn derived its title through tax sale proceedings. The defendant, Lula McDermott, answered. She alleged that she was the record title owner; that the tax deed, through which plaintiff claimed to derive his title, was void for the reason the tax deed proceedings on which it was founded were fatally defective in that no notice of expiration of the period of redemption was served as required by law, either upon her or upon the tenant in possession of the land. She claimed the right to redeem and, in…