Turpin v. Lemon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of West Virginia sustaining a demurrer to, and dismissing, a bill -filed for the purpose of impeaching a tax sale and deed of certain lands, and of obtaining a judicial declaration that the defendants, who were purchasers under such tax deed, took no title to or interest in such lands.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of West Virginia sustaining a demurrer to, and dismissing, a bill -filed for the purpose of impeaching a tax sale and deed of certain lands, and of obtaining a judicial declaration that the defendants, who were purchasers under such tax deed, took no title to or interest in such lands. The facts set forth in the bill were substantially as follows: On April 30, 1874, Turpin, a citizen of the State of-Pennsylvania, purchased from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The general charge is made by the appellant in his assign ments of error that the tax sale complained of in the bill, as well as the statutes of West Virginia, are obnoxious to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution in failing to provide due process of law or the equal protection of the laws.
The particular errors which are alleged in the bill to invalidate the sale in question are—
That it nowhere appeared in the return of the sale made by the sheriff for these taxes, either (1) that the land had been certified to him as delinquent by the auditor of the State as required by law, or (2)…
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