Widersum v. Bender
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed April 10, 1897, against Anton Bender, Caroline Reichardt, Ernst Hormel, and Willard Welch, to redeem certain real estate from a tax sale.
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Bill in equity, filed April 10, 1897, against Anton Bender, Caroline Reichardt, Ernst Hormel, and Willard Welch, to redeem certain real estate from a tax sale. A decree was entered in this court “ that the plaintiffs pay to the defendant Caroline Reichardt the original sum paid to the collector of taxes of the city of Boston, together with all intervening sums paid as taxes upon, said estate, with interest to the date of the decree, and the lawful costs, amounting to' §81.26 ; that the defendant Caroline Reichardt execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the plaintiffs a deed of release of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The tax sale from which the plaintiffs seek to redeem took place on October 18,1893, and this bill was filed on April 10, 1897. Under the provisions of St. 1888, c. 390, § 76, this court has equity powers in all cases of taking or sale of real estate for the payment of taxes assessed thereon, if relief is sought within five years from the taking or sale. While this provision does not in every case extend the time of redemption to five years, it allows the court to decree redemption upon a bill filed within five years from the sale, if the circumstances render it equitable. O'Day v. Bowker,…
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