Preston v. Cox
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Yakey, J., entered January 24, 1908, upon findings in- favor of the defendants, after a trial before the court without a jury, in an action to set aside a tax title.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, C. J.
This is an action to set aside certain tax foreclosure decrees, and to remove the cloud of all proceedings thereunder. Certificates of delinquency were issued for the several lots concerned to PI. B. Kennedy, for the unpaid taxes of 1896 and prior years. The name of the owner upon the tax rolls at the time the taxes were assessed was L. M. Ordway, and each of the certificates of delinquency showed that the property was so assessed. In the suits to foreclose the liens of the certificates, L. M. Ordway was not named in *452the notices or summonses. She was dead at the time, a fact which was then…
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