The PEOPLE v. Altman

The issue here is the timeliness of an attempted redemption from a tax foreclosure sale. Anne C. Rowan was the purchaser at the sale held pursuant to the foreclosure decree. The period of redemption expired August 31, 1954. On September 1, 1954, the court entered a supplemental decree which found that the period of redemption had expired and that the purchaser had complied with all applicable requirements, and directed the county clerk to execute and deliver a deed to the purchaser.

Two days after the entry of this decree, Allan Slatin, the beneficiary of a trust which had recently acquired…