Post v. Cowan

The action is brought to cancel a tax deed made by the county treasurer of Suffolk county to the appellant on November 19, 1931. The complaint alleges in substance that plaintiff is by assignment the owner of a mortgage dated July 20, 1926, and duly recorded, upon the premises conveyed by the tax deed; that, on October 26, 1928, the premises in question were sold by the county treasurer of Suffolk county to the appellant for the unpaid taxes of 1927; that the appellant has never given to the plaintiff any notice of this tax sale as required by the provisions of section 138 of the Tax Law, and…