Opinion ID: 1602249
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Heading: SDCL ch. 10-25:

Text: SDCL 10-25-3, at times salient to this appeal, provided: The notice of intention to take tax deed shall be served upon the owner of record of the real property so sold, upon the person in possession thereof, and also upon the person in whose name the same is taxed and upon the mortgagee named in any unsatisfied mortgage then in force upon such real property of record in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the same is located, and if any such mortgage shall have been assigned and the assignment thereof placed upon record in the office of the register of deeds, then upon such assignee in lieu of the mortgagee named in the mortgage. (Emphasis added.) SDCL 10-25-3 did not require that notice be sent to all known or reasonably ascertainable judgment creditors. [8] It did not even provide for notice by publication. (And remember, notice by publication was held to be insufficient in Mennonite, supra, and Tulsa Professional Collection Services v. Pope, 485 U.S. 478, 108 S.Ct. 1340, 99 L.Ed.2d 565 (1988)). Therefore, under the clear holdings by the United States Supreme Court, this statute (SDCL 10-25-3), in its prior form, was unconstitutional.