Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. City of Spartanburg

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fisi-iburne.

On June 1, 1936, the defendant J. H. Rothrock, tax collector for the defendant City of Spartanburg, sold a parcel of land in said city to satisfy its claim for unpaid delinquent taxes assessed against the property for the years 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1935. Thereafter the plaintiff brought suit against the City of Spartanburg, and the other defendants named herein, in which he prayed: (a) That the tax sale of June 1, 1936, be declared illegal and void, and that the cloud be removed from off and over plaintiff’s title; (b)…