Section 25 Statute of Limitations

• Library: Tax Law 2009

As a practical matter, the municipal corporation will generally look first at exhausting nonlegal avenues to recover back
taxes. In the process, the authority may inadvertently find
itself barred by the statute of limitations. In attempting to set aside an actual sale, counsel will want to note that the statute
of limitations running against the action does not begin to
run when the tax deed is void on its face. See Pettus v. City
of St. Louis, 328 S.W.2d 636 (Mo. 1959); Meriwether v. Overly, 129 S.W. 1...