Pittman Construction Co. v. City of Marietta

The exception is to a judgment sustaining a demurrer and dismissing a petition praying for equitable relief. The particular relief sought is recovery of $1600 paid to the City of Marietta for property sold at a tax sale, 'assessed under an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1917, pp. 757-767), and for cancellation of the marshaPs deed conveying the property to the petitioner.

1. A purchaser at a tax sale, as a general rule, does not come within the rule applicable to purchasers bona fide, but rather within the rule of caveat emptor, and is chargeable with knowledge of defects which the…