Moore v. . Sugg
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was ail actiox by plaintiff against J. T. Sugg, Tax-collector of Greene county, to sustain the sale of land for taxes.
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This was ail actiox by plaintiff against J. T. Sugg, Tax-collector of Greene county, to sustain the sale of land for taxes. The referee to whom the case was sent by the Court below found, as a matter of fact, that the plaintiff, in 1889, purchased certain land at a foreclosure of mortgages which had been assigned to him, and that at the time of the execution or assignment to him he hád no notice that there were any unpaid taxes due on the land for'the years 1881 to 1886, inclusive, but that prior to the foreclosure sale at which lie purchased he had notice that there was a claim for such…
1Opinion of the Court
Burweee, J.:
When this cause was here on a former appeal (112 N. C., 233) it was declared that the injunction should be continued in force till the hearing. There was afterwards in the Court below an order of reference, and the referee, having found certain facts, drew from them the following conclusions of law: “That the plaintiff, Thomas Moore, is a purchaser for value of the lands conveyed in mortgages herein referred to; that having no notice at the time of the execution of the mortgages, or at the time of the transfer of the same to him, that any taxes were du'e thereon, the said lands…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Moore v. . SuggSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
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