Board of County Commissioners v. Challiss

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pollock, J.:

This action was brought by the county board of Atchison county against Mary A. Challiss, the owner of a city lot in Atchison, her husband, and all parties in interest in such lot, under the provisions of chapter 392, Laws of 1901 (Gen. Stat. 1901, §§7718-7724), to obtain a determination of the amount of unpaid taxes existing against said lot, to have the amount so determined decreed a first lien thereon, and an order of sale in satisfaction thereof.

At the date of the commencement of the action Mary A. Challiss and her husband were citizens…