Geibel v. Clark

McHUGH, Justice:

This appeal presents the question of whether Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams, 462 U.S. 791, 103 S.Ct. 2706, 77 L.Ed.2d 180 (1983), which this Court followed in Lilly v. Duke, 180 W.Va. 228, 376 S.E.2d 122 (1988), on the type of notice constitutionally required, ordinarily, for a sheriffs tax sale of real property, should be applied retroactively to sheriffs’ tax sales conducted before Mennonite Board of Missions was decided. We hold in the negative and reverse the contrary final order of the Circuit Court of Wayne County, West Virginia. We remand the case, however, for…