Kane v. Eustis Et Ux.

One O. M. Dean purchased a tax certificate for 1926 taxes due on the property involved in this suit, and held the same until August, 1928, when he assigned it to Elizabeth B. Dean, who afterwards obtained a tax deed thereon. Later Elizabeth B. Dean by quit claim deed conveyed her interest in the. property acquired under the tax deed, to one W. F. Zimmerman. Zimmerman at that time held a second mortgage on the property against the original owner who had let the land sell for its taxes.

The Chancellor ruled in the suit below brought by the first mortgagee to foreclose his mortgage, and to…