Columbia Basin Land Co. v. Peter C. Chalmers Co.

— This appeal presents the question of the validity of the service of process in a tax foreclosure proceeding.

The facts material to an understanding of the question are substantially these: The Ephrata Land Company, a corporation organized in 1911, was the owner of certain land in Grant county. In that year, it executed a mortgage covering the land, together with certain land in King county. In September, 1916, a foreclosure action was commenced on this mortgage in King county, and such proceedings had that the Grant county land was sold thereunder to the mortgagee. The certificate of sale…