Logan v. . Griffith

Can tbe owner of a tax sale certificate maintain an action of foreclosure after tbe lapse of eighteen months from tbe date of tbe certificate?

Tbe applicable statutes create a lien for purchasers at tax sales, and also prescribe tbe procedure for enforcing said lien. “Foreclosure” is tbe process provided for turning tbe lien into money. Whether such lien be a plain lien arising from tbe bare purchase at tbe sale or payment of taxes or such as may be evidenced by a certificate of sale executed by tbe proper officers, tbe sovereign may proceed under C. S., 7990, to foreclose tbe lien, in which…