M & P Enterprises, Inc. v. Transamerica Financial Services

HOLSTEIN, Chief Justice.

The purchaser of real property at a delinquent sale appeals entry of a partial summary judgment in favor of respondents on three counts of the purchaser’s petition and the dismissal of two remaining counts. The principal question presented is whether a recorded deed of trust is extinguished by a third tax sale where the lien holder had no written notice before the sale, but was given post-sale notice of a purported right to redeem the property. This Court has jurisdiction because the constitutionality of chapter 140, RSMo, 1 which governs tax sales, is at issue. Mo.…