Conners v. City of Lowell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions oe contract under the provisions of St. 1909, c. 490, Part II. § 45, to recover money paid to the collector of the defendant by the respective plaintiffs for certain property sold to them at tax sales, and conveyed to them by collector’s deeds, the plaintiffs contending that for various reasons the sales and the deeds were invalid.
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Three actions oe contract under the provisions of St. 1909, c. 490, Part II. § 45, to recover money paid to the collector of the defendant by the respective plaintiffs for certain property sold to them at tax sales, and conveyed to them by collector’s deeds, the plaintiffs contending that for various reasons the sales and the deeds were invalid. Writs dated June 15, 1910. The plaintiff in the first case sought to recover twenty-one different sums which he had paid at a collector’s sale on August 10, 1909, for twenty-one different parcels of land then sold to him. The items were described in a…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
These are actions under St. 1909, c. 490, Part II. § 45, (formerly it. L. c. 13, § 44,) to recover money paid for tax deeds which, it is claimed, by reason of error, omissions or informality in the sales, conveyed no title.
1. The form of tax deed used in several sales was that prescribed in St. 1901, c. 519. This form was in the law less than six months, having been repealed by R. L. c. 227, and supplanted by No. 14 of Schedule of Forms attached to R. L. c. 13, § 87, now St. 1909, c. 490, Part II. § 89, No. 14. The question is whether this form employed since 1902, was “suitable ” under R. L.…
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