Dufour v. Wood

REDMANN, Judge.

This is a class action for a declaratory judgment concerning title to land sold in 1916 for city taxes to Third District Land Company and acquired from the tax purchaser by the husband of a grand-daughter of one of the tax debtors, for precisely the price of redemption but by act which took the form of a cash sale without warranty, executed six days (including a weekend) after the period for redemption had passed.

The trial court held that the heirs of the tax debtors owned the property, on the theory that the purported cash sale was but a redemption of the property which…