Knollenberg v. Mitchell, County Treasurer

OPINION OF THE COURT

SIMMS, J.

This is a companion case to Knollenberg v. State Bank of Alamogordo, 299 P. 1077, this day decided, and involves the same tax title. It is a. mandamus suit to ..compel Mitchell, the county treasurer of Otero county, to accept redemption money and issue a certificate of redemption. The lower court awarded a peremptory writ, and the treasurer appealed.

1. There is only one question in Jhe. case. .Where real estate was sold to the county February 1, 1923, fon delinquent taxes of 1920, and the certificate of sale was recorded July 17, 1924, and held by the county until…