Macumber v. Gillett

This was an action against plaintiff’s tenants and some third parties, to hav-e it decreed (1) that a tax deed, based upon some tax sale certificates, was void for irregularity in the proceedings; (2) that, if any interest or title had passed under the deed, it was being held in the name of a third party defendant for the benefit of plaintiff’s tenants, who could not lawfully acquire the property through tax sale proceedings as against their landlord, and who were therefore merely trustees for plaintiff; (3) that plaintiff’s title should be quieted to the real estate as against all the…