Anderson v. Jackson

This is an appeal by Leslie L. Jackson, one of the defendants below, from an order of the Kanawha County Circuit Court setting aside a tax deed. The circuit court determined that the landowner was not provided constitutionally sufficient notice of the tax delinquency. We affirm.

Larry R. Anderson, the plaintiff, was the owner of two small tracts of land situated in the Charleston North Annex. In 1975, these tracts were returned delinquent for nonpayment of real property taxes. They were offered for sale at public auction by the Sheriff of Kanawha County on October 7, 1976. Notice of the sale…