Crane v. Martin

Appellants, James and Barbara Crane, appeal from a final declaratory judgment upholding the validity of a tax deed issued to appellee, Frederick Martin. The Cranes contend that the tax deed was void, because the published notice failed to include the name of Barbara Crane, and because the notice of tax sale was not mailed to the Cranes’ home address. We affirm, because the statute requiring notice by publication, section 197.512(1), Florida Statutes (1997), is directory rather than jurisdictional, and because the clerk of the circuit court complied with the statutory requirements of section…