Bowser v. Tootle

BLASS, Justice,

for the Court:

This is a dispute over the ownership of land. The seminal source of the problem was a conveyancing error resulting in an erroneous description on the assessment rolls and, consequently, an erroneous description in a tax sale. The sale was confirmed against those holding the last deeds of record under the erroneous description but against no one else. The Bowser title here depends on the erroneous description and on the tax sale and must fail for the reasons hereinafter set out. We affirm the Chancellor’s decision.

It is not necessary to go into the ancient history…