Case ID: wash_38/html/0240-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Ouriam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 5250.
    Decided April 12, 1905.]
    Katie May Plumb et al., Appellants, v. F. L. Dyas et al., Respondents.
      
    
    
      , Taxation—Foreclosure of Lien—Notice—Name of Owner. In a tax foreclosure proceeding in which the holder of the record title and all unknown owners were named as defendants, the equitable owners are not necessary parties, and cannot question the tax title secured under the judgment of foreclosure, on the ground that they had no notice of the suit.
    Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Bell, J., entered January 28, 1904, in favor of the defendants, upon the pleadings and plaintiff’s opening statement, at a trial before the court without a jury, dismissing an action to quiet-title.
    Affirmed.'
    
      Brady & Gay and Byers & Byers, for appellants.
    
      Ralph Simon, for respondents.
    
      
      Reported in 80 Pac. 432.
    
   Per Ouriam.

The record title to the 'property in com trcversy in this action stood in the name of one Mary A. Dougan until some time in the month of March, 1902. On the 1st day of March, 1902, in a certain tax proceeding, pending in the superior court of King county, in which said Mary A. Dougan and unknown owners were named as defendants, a judgment was entered, directing the sale of said property for delinquent taxes, and in pursuance of such judgment a tax deed was issued to the defendants herein, who were the purchasers at the tax sale. Some time in January, 1901, J. W. Wheeler, one of the plaintiffs in this action, entered into' an agreement with the said Mary A. Dougan, whereby she agreed to convey the property in controversy to said WTieeler,' and in pursuanee of such, agreement a deed therefor was executed and delivered to said Wheeler, some time after the entry of the tax judgment above mentioned. The only objection urged against the tax title is that the plaintiffs herein were the equitable owners of the property at the time of the foreclosure, and were not made parties thereto. The court below held that these facts would not defeat the tax title, and entered judgment accordingly. From this judgment the plaintiffs appeal.

Under the uniform rulings of this court, the plaintiffs were not necessary parties to the proceeding to foreclose die tax lien, under the facts stated, and the judgment of foreclosure was valid and binding as against them. See, Williams v. Pittock, 35 Wash. 271, 77 Pac. 385, and cases cited.

The judgment is therefore affirmed.