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Tharp v. Harpagon Co.

The Supreme Court had jurisdiction over an appeal in a quiet title case pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 23-3-40 et. seq.

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After Nathan H. Tharp, Jr. brought suit seeking, inter alia, the cancellation of a tax deed and injunctive relief barring transfer of the property that was subject to that deed. Harpagon Company, the property’s current owner, filed an answer and a counterclaim in which it initiated a conventional quiet title proceeding, sought damages for trespass and conversion and asked for attorney fees. For Tharp’s failure to comply with its orders the trial court granted Harpagon’s motion to involuntarily dismiss Tharp’s claims. A special master thereafter heard the quiet title proceeding and the trial court adopted the special master’s recommendation that it rule in favor of Harpagon. Harpagon dismissed its remaining claims and the trial court awarded it $36,028 in attorney fees and costs against both Tharp and his counsel. This appeal ensued. 1. Jurisdiction is proper in this Court in this appeal from a judgment entered in a conventional quia timet action, see OCGA § 23-3-40 et seq., brought to remove a cloud from the title of real property caused by equities of redemption following a tax sale. See generally Johnson v. Red Hill Associates , __Ga.__ Case No. S04A0967, decided September 13, 2004.

2. Tharp raises on appeal numerous issues regarding the manner in which the tax foreclosure was handled, all of which would have been matters of proof in the proceedings below. “However, since no transcript was made of the proceeding before the special master in which the facts of the case were established, the special master’s finding on which the trial court’s judgment was based cannot be reviewed. Cit.” Id. at 3.

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