Schiavo v. Steers

In this action to recover possession of property and for related damages, plaintiff Lo Schiavo moves for summary judgment. She is the present owner of property initially conveyed to her deceased husband in 1928. That 1928 deed contained a metes and bounds description as well as a reference to the property as the southeasterly one half of a certain lot on a filed map, number 292.

The defendants Steers have title emanating from a 1939 tax deed, the result of the Lo Schiavo grantor’s nonpayment of taxes on the rest of lot 292. The tax deed, and subsequent conveyances based on it, refer to that…