140.540. Invalidity of sale--refund of purchase money--tolling of statute. - Missouri Statutes

Invalidity of sale--refund of purchase money--tolling of statute.

140.540. 1. Whenever the county collector shall discover,prior to the conveyance of any lands sold for taxes, that thesale was for any cause whatever, invalid, he shall not conveysuch lands; but the purchase money and the interest thereon shallbe refunded out of the county treasury to the purchaser, hisrepresentatives or assigns, on the order of the countycommission.

2. Such invalid sale shall suspend for the periodintervening between the date of the sale and the discovery of itsinvalidity the running of the statute of limitations.

3. In such cases the county collector shall make an entryopposite to such tracts or lots in the record of certificates ofpurchase issued or redemption record that the same waserroneously sold, and the cause of invalidity, and such entryshall be prima facie evidence of fact therein stated. He shallnotify the county clerk of such action, whose duty it shall be tomake a like entry upon his sale record.

(RSMo 1939 § 11155)