Turner v. Spera

Plaintiff taxpayer brought suit in Lamoille Superior Court seeking to void the Stowe tax collector’s deed to the defendant, the culmination of a tax sale of plaintiff’s real estate in Stowe. The trial court, in granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment, ruled that plaintiff’s claim was barred by a one-year statute of limitations, 32 V.S.A. § 5294 (4), and that the tax collector’s failure to publish notice of the tax sale by three successive advertisements in the local newspaper, as required by 32 V.S.A. § 5252 (2), was an omission of insufficient magnitude to negate jurisdiction to…