Simon v. Cronecker

In the two consolidated appeals before us, plaintiffs are holders of tax sale certificates covering the unpaid municipal taxes and charges on defendants’ properties. Plaintiffs have instituted actions to foreclose on the tax certificates, and defendants stand to lose their properties unless they can redeem those certificates within the time prescribed by law. A third-party investor contracted to purchase defendants’ properties and arranged for the redemption of the tax certificates, without intervening first in the foreclosure action.

Plaintiffs claim that the eleventh-hour intermeddling by…