Case Name: George Mathers et al. v. J. E. Bull
Court: Hamilton Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1900
Citations: 10 Ohio Cir. Dec. 515
Docket Number: 
Parties: George Mathers et al. v. J. E. Bull.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 10
Pages: 515–516

Head Matter:
TAX SALES — CERTIFICATES—TENDER.
[Hamilton Circuit Court,
1900.]
Smith, Swing and Giffen, JJ.
George Mathers et al. v. J. E. Bull.
1. Tax Saxes on Third Tuesday in January Varid.
The amendment to sec. 2864, Rev. Stat., providing that the auditor shall-advertise delinquent tax sales between December 20 and the first Monday in February, does not change the requirements of sec. 2870, Rev. Stat., providing that tax sales shall be held by the treasurer on the third Tuesday in January, inasmuch as it is possible to comply with both sections.
2. Tender to Supposed Hoxder oe Certieicates.
A tender of taxes and penalties to the person who appears on the tax duplicate as the owner of the tax certificates, made without notice that the certificate had been assigned or transferred to another, is sufficient.
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
Wilby & Wald, for plaintiffs,
F. W. Browne, contra.
For another decision in this case, on question of appeal and error, see 10 Circ. Dec., 16. For decision of the common pleas court, see 9 Dec., 408.

Opinion:
Giffen, J.
These cases involve the question of the legality of the sale of certain lands by the treasurer at delinquent tax sale, the same being held on the first Monday of February.
Section 2870, Rev. Stat., provides that such sale shall be held by the treasurer on the third Tuesday in January, and this requirement is not changed by sec. 2864, Rev. Stat. Mathers v. Lewis, Auditor, 9 Circ. Dec., 873, followed and approved.
A tender was made on May 6, 1898, by the plaintiffs to the defendant of the amount of the taxes and penalties; but it is claimed that the defendant was not then the owner of the tax certificates, he having transferred them to Belle M. Irwin, and she to A. Y. Reid, trustee.
At the time of the tender the property appeared upon the tax duplicate, and still remains in the name of the defendant, J. F. Bull.
Bull, at the time of the tender and subsequent thereto, acknowledged he was the owner of the certificates, and it appears that Reid had notice that a tender had been made to Bull.
In Pollock on Contracts, 209, it is said that " title by assignment is not complete as against a debtor without notice to the debtor, and a debtor who performs his contract to the original creditor without notice of any assignment by the creditor is thereby discharged."
We think the plaintiffs, being without notice of the assignment, did all they were required to do, and that the tender to J. F. Bull was good.
Decree accordingly.