Forrer v. Brown

The decision in this suit to remove a cloud on title hinges on the sufficiency of an order of publication. The order had been entered in a prior suit which culminated in the judicial sale for delinquent real estate taxes of property that is the subject of the present suit.

The procedings giving rise to the bizarte circumstances in this litigation commenced over 28 years ago. The facts are not disputed; they are gleaned from an examination of court papers in three prior suits relating to the subject property, lying in Albemarle County, as well as from review of the transcript of a brief ore…