Word: wared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ware Case...
...Lillian Ware (powerless) is late in paying a tax of $41.57 [June 24]. Punishment: loss of a $25,000 home...
...decision against Mrs, Ware by both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts is callous and disgusting. And we wonder why so many revolutionary groups crop...
...such speculator, Chicago Attorney David R. Gray, bought Mrs. Ware's $41.57 bill-the last of ten annual installments on a special assessment for the paving of an alley behind her home. There is significant doubt about Mrs. Ware's claim that she was never notified by Gray that she owed him the taxes. But her lawyers have pointed out that in 1968, when she was hospitalized with a heart condition, she asked a lawyer to check out her tax liabilities; he found a $500 debt for general taxes, which was promptly paid, and he missed the paving...
When she learned the trouble she was in, Mrs. Ware offered to pay the tax -plus interest and penalties. Gray was not interested. The case has been up to both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts, but almost every judge has seemed satisfied that a speculator can indeed get a $25,000 home for $41.57 in unpaid taxes, evict the owner and sell it for all he can. In Illinois, that is-as they say in the movies-perfectly legal...