Real property taxes; recovery of real estate sold; limitation of action

No action for the recovery of real estate sold for the nonpayment of taxes shall be brought after five years from the execution and recording of the treasurer's deed, unless the owner is at the time of the sale a minor, a mentally incompetent person, or a convict in a Department of Correctional Services adult correctional facility in which case such action must be brought within five years after such disability is removed

Last amended: Source Laws 1903, c. 73, § 230, p. 475; R.S.1913, § 6558; C.S.1922, § 6086; C.S.1929, § 77-2038; R.S.1943, § 77-1855; Laws 1986, LB 1177, § 35; Laws 1993, LB 31, § 22. Annotations Statute has no application where tax deed was void. Mack v. Luebben, 215 Neb. 832, 341 N.W.2d 335 (1983). Suit attacking void tax deed is not barred in five years. Sherlock v. Gillis, 108 Neb. 72, 187 N.W. 812 (1922); Opp v. Smith, 102 Neb. 152, 166 N.W. 265 (1918). When tax deed is void, owner may maintain action to r

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