Brewer v. Howard
Citations
- 59 Wash. 580
- 110 P. 384
- 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1243
Syllabus
<p>Appeal — Briefs. An appeal will not he dismissed for error in entitling the ease in the brief, where no one has been misled.</p> <p>Taxation — Foreclosure—Tax Sale — Vacation—Grounds. Sufficient cause is shown for the vacation of a tax judgment and sale, on petition made within one year, and it is error to deny the same, where it appears that the petitioner lived on the land and had made a good faith effort to ascertain and pay the back taxes prior to the issuance of a delinquency certificate, but was prevented by the act of the county treasurer, and he had had no notice of the suit, summons by publication having been made in a paper of limited circulation at a considerable distance from the property.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- “The notice required by Section 21-1-15 is in lieu of personal service and must be strictly complied with.”
- “the chancery court obtained personal jurisdiction over the parties 2 M.R.A.P. 10. 3 See Esco v. Scott, 735 So. 2d 1002, 1006 (Miss. 1999) (“subject matter jurisdiction may not be waived and may be asserted an any stage of the proceeding”
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Judges: Fullerton
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