GESA Federal Credit Union v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York

This case comes to the court on summary judgment motions involving the respective claims of a purchaser at a foreclosure sale, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (purchaser), and a junior lienholder, GESA Federal Credit Union (redemptioner), in the re demption of foreclosed farm property. The parties dispute the legal consequences of purchaser's failure to file a statement of irrigation tax assessment payments with the county auditor. See RCW 6.24.150. While we affirm the Court of Appeals judgment for the purchaser, we do so on different reasoning. We hold instead that, absent a…