Hauver v. Dorsey

This case presents a narrow question whether a failure to comply with the provisions of Maryland Rule 105 deprived the court below of jurisdiction to foreclose a tax lien under Code (1957), Art. 81, sec. 107.

G. Edwin Johnston died on December 8, 1953, leaving a will wherein he devised the property known as 30 Burke Avenue, Towson, Maryland to the appellant Jeanne Hauver, but the will was not probated in Maryland. Real estate taxes being in arrears, the property was sold at a tax sale on December 1, 1958, and a certificate issued to the purchaser, J. M. Dorsey. On June 9, 1960, the appellee…