Howard v. Dor El Realty Co.

Defendants, appellants herein, are appealing the decision of the trial court on the petition of plaintiffs, appellees herein, for declaratory judgment concerning real estate owned by plaintiffs, which was forfeited for failure to pay taxes and was sold to defendants pursuant to Sections 5723.01 to 5723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The trial court held that the tax sale and all the conveyances made pursuant thereto are void and of no effect.

In 1939 legal title was acquired by plaintiffs Garnet F. Howard and C. C. Choffin to Youngstown city lot No. 7962, and this was correctly reflected…