Gengler v. King County

Plaintiff instituted this action to quiet title to real property acquired by the county at a tax foreclosure sale and resold to plaintiff. The case, tried to the court upon its merits, resulted in a judgment in favor of plaintiff. The city of Seattle has appealed. The assignments of error relate to holdings of the court that certain local improvement assessments made against the property during the time the county owned it were extinguished by a resale to respondent.

The facts may be stated as follows: During the year 1929, King county conducted a general tax foreclosure sale which included…