Kennedy v. Hancock

Section 23 of Chapter 14572, Acts of 1929, provides that the final decree shall determine the amount due “on” the tax certificate, and omitted subsequent taxes, and subsequent tax sale certificates. It also authorizes and requires the Court to include in the final decree in a tax certificate foreclosure proceeding a reasonable attorney’s fee and “costs.”

In this case the Court included in the final decree an item: “abstract information, $10.00,” intending thereby to permit complainant to recover as “costs,” the personal expense complainant had been put to, in ascertaining the state of the…