Cook v. Duncan

McGRAW, Chief Justice:

This case is an appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, rendered December 17, 1979, which rejected the appellants’ attempt to set aside a tax deed issued to the appellees. The appellants are Barbara J. Cook and Frances B. Cook, the plaintiffs below. The appellees are F. Dale Duncan and his wife, Jeanette M. Duncan, defendants below. At trial, the plaintiffs sought to have the circuit court set aside the deed issued to the appellees eighteen months after they purchased real property, then owned by the appellants, at a tax sale. Sitting without a…