Kimberly Realty Co. v. Douglass

Complainant seeks to foreclose under a certificate of tax sale, of which it is admittedly the owner, and defendant seeks to strike the bill of complaint on the sole ground that the foreclosure proceedings were not commenced "before the expiration of twenty years from the date of said tax sale."

The bill of complaint does not allege that the purchaser at the tax sale, or its assigns, ever entered into possession of the lands purchased, and that such possession was not taken is admitted, and it is also admitted that the complainant never sought to "foreclose the right of redemption * * * by…