Lewis v. Ward

Citations

• 99 Ill. 525
• 1881 Ill. LEXIS 207

Syllabus

<p>1. Tax titee — who may purchase at tax sale. A purchase of land at a sale for taxes by one whose duty it was to pay the taxes, will operate as a payment of the taxes only, and the purchaser will not be permitted to acquire any title by such a purchase.</p> <p>2. Where the land of the party making the purchase was taxed as one parcel with that of another, and the whole is sold together, no title will pass to the purchaser or his assignee. Before he can purchase he must pay the taxes on the part owned by him, and he may then acquire a title to the other part of the tract, the same as a stranger.</p> <p>3. If a person owning a part of a tract of land is furnished with money to pay the taxes on the entire tract, no matter by whom he is so furnished, which he assumes to pay, but does not, he will be disqualified from becoming the purchaser of the land at a tax sale.</p>