Phillips v. Blaser

In 1927, Andrew H. Phillips acquired a section of wheat land in Adams county, which was to have been offered for sale by the county October 17, 1936, for tax delinquency in the amount of $902.67. The sale could be postponed if $298.60 were paid prior to October 17, 1936. Phillips’ endeavors to obtain a loan in the amount of $298.60 on the property from a number of banks and from a number of his neighbors, were unsuccessful. October 15, 1936, two days before the property was to be sold at tax sale, Phillips called on W. L. Wenzelburger, who resided about five miles from the land in question,…