Gray Properties, Inc. v. Walter N. Tobriner, Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and George J. Trivers

Appellant is the assignee of a tax sale certificate covering a lot in the District of Columbia. The certificate covers the delinquent and unpaid District real property taxes on the property for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958. The real property taxes on the property were also delinquent for the three succeeding years. There being no purchaser at the public auction for these years, the property was bid off in the name of the District of Columbia, all as provided by the statute. 47 D.C.Code §§ 1001-1003 (1961). On July 2, 1963, the Commissioners for the District, after a private sale…