Fidelity Securities Co. v. Dickinson

Citations

• 117 Wash. 323
• 201 P. 301
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1058

Syllabus

<p>Contracts (40) — Validity. A contract to purchase delinquency certificates expressly authorized by statute is not invalid.</p> <p>Deeds (3) — Parties — Death of Grantee Before Delivery. Deeds executed pursuant to a contract to a grantee in ignorance of his death will be treated in equity as a deed to his estate.</p> <p>Same (55) — Evidence—Consideration. Where negotiations for a conveyance are conducted by a father and a deed is executed to his daughter as grantee, the presumption, in the absence of evidence, is that the consideration was paid by the daughter.</p> <p>Taxation (191) — Tax Titles — Priority Over Prior Mortgage. One acquiring property under a tax deed assumes no obligation to a mortgagee of the property to pay off the taxes accumulated subsequent to his mortgage, and therefore a tax title is superior to the lien of a prior mortgage.</p> <p>Same (177) — Tax Deeds — Title Acquired — Merger of Estates. The fact that the holder of a tax certificate took a quitclaim deed to the property from the owners before the period of redemption had expired, would not constitute a merger of the title under tax deed with that acquired by deed from the owners.</p>