Savage v. Ash

Citations

• 86 Wash. 43
• 149 P. 325
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1179

Syllabus

<p>Taxation — Tax Deed — Cancellation—Fraud—Actions— Limitations. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 159, authorizing an action for relief upon the ground of fraud at any time within three years after the discovery of the facts constituting the fraud, is superseded, as to actions to set aside or cancel a tax deed for fraud, by the later act, Id., § 162, providing that actions to cancel a tax deed or recover lands sold for taxes, must be brought within three years from the date Of the issuance of the tax deed.</p> <p>Account — Complaint — Sufficiency. In an action to cancel a tax deed, an allegation to the effect that one of the defendants violated confidential relations and promised to bid in the property prior to sale, afterwards representing that he had done so, is insufficient to state a cause of action for an accounting against such individual defendant, upon a general demurrer to the complaint.</p>