Headley v. Moorman

SACK, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying appellants’ motion to dismiss a complaint seeking to annul and set aside a tax deed on appellee’s property.

The chronology of events, is as follows: (a) in 1937 a tax certificate was issued upon the property in question; (b) in 1942 the plaintiff (appellee) became the owner of the property; (c) on December 20, 1942, the plaintiff entered the Armed Service of the United States and served until his discharge on December 20, 1945; (d) on June 4, 1945, while plaintiff was overseas, the Clerk issued a tax deed, based on the 1937…