Smith v. Craver

Citations

• 89 Wash. 243
• 154 P. 156
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 666

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Local Improvements — Delinquent Assessments — Summary Foreclosure — Deed—Redemption — Notice to “Owner.” -There must he strict compliance with Rem. & Bal. Code,' § 7808, providing, upon the summary sale of premises for delinquent local improvement assessments, that the notice o'f application for a deed be served personally upon the “owner,” which means the real owner of the property, unless something has been done to work an estoppel; hence notice by publication, to the holder of the record title under an absolute deed intended as a mortgage is not sufficient to cut off the owner’s right of redemption, where she had been in possession for more than ten years, was the record owner when the assessments were levied, her name appeared on the assessment rolls, and she lived in the immediate vicinity and could have been found if diligence had been used.</p>