Bennett v. Greenwalt

This is another Polk county tax case. Like a number of its predecessors, it is a by-product of the scavenger tax sales of May and December 1935, and of January 1937. At these sales Polk county was. the purchaser of a great many parcels of real estate. After deducting resales, assignments, and redemptions, it was still the holder of tax certificates and tax deeds on approximately twelve thousand pieces of property, at the time of this litigation. In the summer of 1937, Greenwalt, the county treasurer, who had succeeded Munn, who, as. such treasurer, had made the sales, informed the board of…