Criswell v. McKnight

Paine, District Judge.

In an action to foreclose a tax certificate, the intervener bank, appellant herein, filed its amended petition of intervention asking that it be allowed to recover a portion of the taxes which had been paid and redeemed by it some two years prior upon that portion of the land included in the said tax certificate upon which it had already secured a decree of foreclosure on its mortgage at the time of such payment. It asked to be subrogated to the rights of the holder of the tax certificate against the remaindermen to the amount paid by it. The lower court denied the…