Buffalo Loan, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Depew Manufacturing Co.

Taylor, J,

The plaintiff is foreclosing a trust mortgage executed by the defendant Depew Manufacturing Company to secure an issue of corporate bonds aggregating $100,000. Said company is a Maine corporation with its principal office at Portland, Maine. It has never had an office in the village of Depew, and none of its officers or directors have resided in that village. Issue is joined' here by the village of Depew, defendant, which claims that it has levied and assessed taxes against the property involved for the years 1899 to 1909 inclusive, and that it has sold said premises for such taxes…