Grapner v. Atlantic Land Title Co.

This case consolidates the appeals in three actions determining the validity of a 1988 tax sale conveying several lots owned by appellant Grapner in Sea Pines Plantation. Grapner contends tax deeds and quiet title judgments should be set aside on the ground he was mentally incompetent at all pertinent times and service upon him was therefore insufficient to afford him adequate notice. We remand.

As a threshold matter, the trial judge assumed Grapner was mentally incompetent but concluded the dis- ' positive fact in validating the conveyances was that Grapner had not been adjudicated…