Kann v. King
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF' Columbia. The facts are stated in the opinion.' This court should not undertake to determine the question of the validity of the tax title. If the adjudication of its invalidity is essential to complainant’s right to relief, that inquiry should never have been entered upon, but the bill should, for that reason alone, have been dismissed.
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APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF' Columbia. The facts are stated in the opinion.' This court should not undertake to determine the question of the validity of the tax title. If the adjudication of its invalidity is essential to complainant’s right to relief, that inquiry should never have been entered upon, but the bill should, for that reason alone, have been dismissed. Admitting the right of the court in this proceeding to try the validity of the tax title at the suit of the tenant would result in this obvious anomaly, namely: If the court found the tax title to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
These appeals are from a decree of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which adjudged that a tax-sale of certain real estate in the District was void, and which relieved -the lessee of the premises from a threatened forfeiture of the lease, asserted to have resulted from the failure of the tenant to pay the taxes to enforce which the tax-sale was made. The complainant in the original bill was Caroline King, the lessee of the premises, and the defendants were Marianne A. B. Ken-nedjr (the lessor) and.Louis Kann, Sigmund Kann and Myer Cohen, whom it was alleged claimed to be…
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