Fay Heasley, Selma Heasley, Helen Heasley Herr, Paul Heasley, Pearl Heasley Hendrix v. The United States of America

The plaintiffs brought this action against the United States seeking judgment for $4,000,000.00 alleging that they “have unlawfully been deprived of their farm, their property and their home.” Specifically, the complaint alleges that a March, 1960 tax lien judgment obtained by the United States is “exorbitant and confiscatory”; that plaintiff, Fay Heas-ley, for himself and on behalf of the other plaintiffs (members of his family) offered to pay the tax lien, but the District Court arbitrarily refused to accept the offer and instead ordered the property to be publicly sold; that at the public…