District Landowners Trust v. County of Adams

Plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, instituted this action to set aside a unitary or bulk sale of some two hundred tax sale certificates by the tax officials of Adams county — on alleged grounds of illegality, fraud, conspiracy and secrecy — to a predetermined purchaser at a flat percentage discount, and without regard to the actual value of the respective properties involved. Application was made for a temporary injunction restraining the sale, which, after an extended hearing, was granted. Subsequently, the court sustained a general demurrer to the amended complaint and dismissed the…