Maryland Realty Co. v. City of Tacoma

The chief question involved in this appeal is: Does the purchaser from a county of real estate obtained by it under foreclosure of a general tax *231certificate of delinquency receive a title free and clear of all previous local improvement assessments.

The facts are stipulated and are as follows: By virtue of Rem. Comp. Stat., § 9389, the city of Tacoma issued to the defendants Lindsay and Scharpf a certificate of delinquency covering certain real estate, which certificate grew out of a certain local improvement assessment. Subsequently the county treasurer of Pierce county issued to the county…