136 W. Va. 370 - Hardman v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. ““1. Section 31, Article 3, Chapter 117, Acts of the Legislature, 1941, which provides that the owner of property, his heirs or assigns, or the person who has redeemed the property may on or before December thirty-first of the third year following a tax sale bring a suit in equity to set aside a deed improperly obtained; and Section 32, Article 3, Chapter 117, Acts of the Legislature, 1941, which provides for the right of one entitled to notice, who was not served, to bring a suit to set aside a tax deed on or before December thirty-first of the third year following a tax sale, are not applicable to a case in which the tax deed is sought to be set aside on the ground that the sale was in valid and the county court clerk’s deed, made pursuant thereto, was void because of an erroneous assessment. “2. A tax sale based upon an invalid assessment is void, and a deed made by the county court clerk to a tax purchaser, pursuant to such sale, constitutes a cloud on the owner’s title, which the latter has the right to have removed in a court of equity.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Baker · Bailey v. Baker