People Ex Rel. Larson v. Rosewell

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE PERLIN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is a consolidation of two separate actions involving the construction of section 235a of the Revenue Act (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1978 Supp., ch. 120, par. 716a), commonly referred to as the Scavenger Act. At issue is whether the Scavenger Act’s provision for the publication by the county collector of “an advertisement giving notice of the intended application for judgment for sale of all tracts of lands and lots upon which all or part of the general taxes for each of 5 or more years are delinquent” is directory or mandatory,…