Petersen v. Government of the Virgin Islands

MEMORANDUM OPINION WITH JUDGMENT ATTACHED

WARREN H. YOUNG, District Judge.

Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the January 29,1971 tax sale of certain parcels of realty, lots 6-B and 6-C Hospital Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, to defendant Michael Schjang be declared null and void. Plaintiffs contend that defendant, Government of the Virgin Islands, failed in four respects to comply with the statutory provisions governing tax sales, to wit: (1) the government failed to publish a general notice that property taxes for the year 1968 were due as required by 33 V.I.C. § 2495; (2) the…