You will probably not get rich this way, but you also won't get evicted in a tax sale or a bankruptcy.
A tax sale deed was conclusive evidence of legal sale, and was not a subject for the decision of a court.
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.
The author of the tax sale law was Pierce Burton, a Radical editor.
