Prince George's Homes, Inc. v. Cahn

This case presents the question whether a purchaser of real property at a tax sale, who has timely filed suit to foreclose the rights of redemption but who has not concluded those proceedings for a period of nine years, may obtain a foreclosure decree after the property has been sold a second time for subsequent delinquent taxes and suit has been filed by the assignee of the second purchaser to likewise foreclose the rights of redemption. We conclude that under the circumstances here, it was error to dismiss the original purchaser’s foreclosure action.

The occurrences which resulted in the…