Crofts v. Johnson

CROCKETT, Justice.

The plaintiff, Elaine Crofts, sued W. Glenn Johnson to quiet title to a home located in ICanab which she claimed under an auditor’s tax deed. The trial court ruled that inasmuch as the tax payment for the auditor’s deed was made by a mortgagee, any interest so acquired was held in constructive trust for Johnson, the mortgagor and legal titleholder, and entered judgment requiring conveyance of title to Johnson upon reimbursement to plaintiff for the amount paid for the tax deed plus interest. Affirmed. Costs to respondent.

Johnson had mortgaged the property in 1946. Taxes for…