Street Improvement District No. 419 v. Pinkert

This cáse presents varied questions that arise from the fact that our laws permit overlapping improvement districts to foreclose their tax liens separately and thereby acquire independent titles to the same property. Here this conflict of ownership results from successive foreclosure suits brought by a Little Bock sewer district and a Little Bock street district, the appellant. Each district bought in the land at its own sale.

In the court below this was a three-cornered controversy involving the title to two city lots. Pinkert, the first litigant, brought suit to quiet the title he had…