WASHINGTON v. McKIBBON HOTEL GROUP INC

I respectfully disagree with the majority opinion which affirms the trial court’s award of fee simple title to McKibbon Hotel Group, the entity which purchased a 22-year-old right of redemption and exercised it against Alvin Washington, the individual who had purchased the property at a tax sale in 1990 and had maintained the .082-acre parcel and paid taxes on it for the ensuing 17 years.1

1. Appellant Washington claimed title to the property through *267his completion of a bar of redemption in 1992 and, alternatively, by his tax deed ripening by prescription into fee simple title pursuant to OCGA…