Denman v. Steinbach

Citations

• 29 Wash. 179
• 69 P. 751
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 573

Syllabus

<p>QUIETING TITLE-REMOVING CLOUD CREATED BY TAX SALE-TENDER OR TAXES.</p> <p>The owner of land sold for delinquent! taxes cannot maintain an action to quiet title without tendering defendant the amount paid by him, with interest, on account of such delinquent taxes, although defendant’s incipient title under the tax sale may have become null and void for failure to perfect it within the statutory time, since such failure would not extinguish the lien itself as provided by Laws 1893, p. 361, § 88, which declares that “the taxes assessed upon real property shall be a lien thereon from and including the first day of April in the year in which they are levied, until the same are paid.”</p>