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SHOCKLEY v. ABBOTT SUPPLY COMPANY

135 A.2d 607 (1957)

Edward SHOCKLEY and Mae Gertrude Shockley and John C. Eckert and Gail Bond Eckert, Appellants, v. ABBOTT SUPPLY COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

October 31, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart Lynch of Hastings, Lynch & Taylor, Wilmington, and Daniel J. Layton, Jr., Georgetown, for appellants.

James M. Tunnell, Jr. of Tunnell & Tunnell, Georgetown, for appellee.

SOUTHERLAND, Chief Justice, WOLCOTT, Justice, and MARVEL, Vice Chancellor, sitting.

SOUTHERLAND, Chief Justice.

The principal question in this case is whether a sale in Sussex County for nonpayment of county taxes extinguishes mortgage liens antedating the tax lien.

The facts are these:

In 1905 Fenwick Island Land Company, a Delaware corporation, acquired title to a tract of land in Sussex County comprising that portion of Fenwick Island within the State of Delaware. In 1908 the corporation...

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