Fawncrest Associates, Inc. v. District of Columbia

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

At a January 1992 tax sale, appellant (“Fawncrest”) purchased a property in Southeast Washington, D.C. (“the property”) and received a tax certificate. During the two-year redemption period, see D.C.Code § 47-1304(a) (1990),1 the record owner of the property conveyed it to a bank (the successor to the mortgagee), and the bank — still during the redemption period — sold it to the District of Columbia. Fawncrest requested a tax deed at the end of the two-year period, see id., but was turned away, the District instead refunding with interest the money Fawncrest had paid…