Case ID: ky-op_11/html/0415-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George Kaye et al. v. City of Louisville.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 3-534, affd. 13 Ky. L. 114, 14 S. W. 679.]
    Proceeding to Collect Taxes.
    A purchaser of real estate is required to pay the taxes against the property which are unpaid and which in the contract of purchase he has received from the grantor.
    APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT.
    
      D. M. Rodman, for appellants.
    
    
      H. M. Lane, for appellee.
    
    January 17, 1882.
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

It is difficult to see in what manner Kaye is interested in this controversy. He was not primarily liable either to the city or to the last purchaser for the taxes due, and if liable to the last purchaser, who is the real appellant? The latter expressly states that he is fully indemnified by the judgment in the action under which he made his purchase. This is a proceeding in rem to enforce a lien for taxes due by the original owner, who is not before the court. It is not pretended that the taxes for the years named have been paid, and the appellant, Levy, says he is permitted to retain the taxes out of the purchase-money, or rather is fully indemnified by the judgment ordering a resale. Various questions of interest might arise in this case if the parties to the record could be affected by the judgment, but when the taxes have not been paid and the purchaser permitted to retain them he ought in equity to be required to pay over. He is not prejudiced in any way.

Judgment affirmed.