Buchanan v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 96 Ill. 2d 159 - Vulcan Materials Co. v. Bee Construction · CECO Corp. v. Concrete Specialists, Inc. · Ingraham v. Hanson · 101 Ill. App. 3d 30 - Vulcan Materials Co. v. Bee Construction Co. · Marchant v. Park City
Most-quoted passages
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“In equity, the mortgagee should not be allowed to waive this right and instead become a tax purchaser, and cause injury to the other lienholders, for the minimal cost it would have taken to redeem the property from the tax sale. The property is a common fund in which all the parties have an interest. One should not be allowed to use the law of tax sales to destroy this fund to benefit oneself to the prejudice of all others. It is manifestly unfair to allow a mortgagee to use the law of tax sales for the specific purpose of working an injustice. The law of tax sales is designed to give strangers to the property a speedy method of acquiring merchantable title to the property so the property can get back into the stream of commerce so that future taxes can be collected. It is not designed to be a method by which a party with a pre-tax sale interest in the property can forego the payment of the taxes, allow the property to be sold for taxes, and then acquire it for a minimal cost so that party can raise its previous interest above all other previous interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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