Mitchell v. Minnequa Town Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from the District Court of Arapahoe County. Hon. P. L. Palmer, Judge. Action by W. C. Mitchell against The Minnequa Town Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of Arapahoe County. Hon. P. L. Palmer, Judge. Action by W. C. Mitchell against The Minnequa Town Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Action by Mitchell, appellant, against The Minnequa Town Company, appellee, for money paid by appellant at a tax sale: The complaint, inter alia, avers: “That on the 23rd .of November, 1892, in the county of Pueblo and state of Colorado, the then county treasurer of Pueblo^ county offered for sale lot 2, in block 43, in Uplands Park, for delinquent taxes for the year 1891; that the plaintiff was the purchaser…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
It is well settled that the maxim caveat emptor applies to the purchaser at a tax sale, and if he fails.to secure good title to the property he attempts to purchase because of the invalidity of the tax sale, he cannot recover the amount paid therefor unless .some statute in terms provides such remedy. *369We have no such statute; but, on the other hand, the manner in which taxes legally levied shall be collected, and the realty subjected to the payment of such tax is. specifically provided by our statute.—Richardson v. City of Denver, 17 Colo. 398, 401; Larimer County v. Nat. Bank, 11 Colo. 564,…
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