89 Year Old Blind Widow Loses 35 Acre Farm For Failure To Pay $38; Files Suit To Get It Back

In Marissa, Illinois, the Belleville News-Democrat reports:

• An 89-year-old, blind widow could lose her Marissa farm because she never received notice that she owed $38.08 in property taxes from 2003. On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court on behalf of Virginia A. Juenger after a tax buyer, Prairie State Properties LLC of Belleville, purchased her delinquent tax from 2003. The company purchased the delinquent tax in 2005. On Aug. 27, Prairie State Properties filed an application for a judge to issue a tax deed to Juenger's property for the delinquent 2003 property tax of $38.08. Juenger's property is 35 acres of farmland and worth more than $100,000. The land has been farmed by a tenant farmer for several years, according to the lawsuit.

For more, see Marissa widow may lose family farm over $38 tax bill.