Buty v. Goldfinch

— The plaintiff commenced this action in the superior court, seeking recovery of real property, claiming title thereto under a tax deed executed by the treasurer of King county, in pursuance of a tax foreclosure judgment rendered in the superior court of that county. The defendant being in possession of the property, and claiming to have been in possession ever since prior to the tax foreclosure, defended upon the ground, among others, that the tax foreclosure judgment and deed were void for want of jurisdic*533tion, because there was no service of any process whatever in the foreclosure action,…