You will probably not get rich this way, but you also won't get evicted in a tax sale or a bankruptcy.
No doubt the farm was to be put up at tax sale and Wiggett had come out to see whether it was worth bidding in.
A tax sale deed was conclusive evidence of legal sale, and was not a subject for the decision of a court.
The author of the tax sale law was Pierce Burton, a Radical editor.
