Womer v. Aldridge

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action for a declaratory interpretation of a certain feature of G. S. 1941 Supp. 79-2801 et seq., which deals with the foreclosure of tax liens on lands sold for delinquent taxes and bid in for the county.

It appears that Sedgwick county has a long-standing financial problem arising from the nonpayment of taxes on real estate. At the present time there are more than 11,000 tracts and parcels of land in that county on which no taxes have been paid for many years, as to all of which the annual mummery…