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Utah County Commission sets aside contested tax sale after legal debate over assignment vs. payoff
Summary
After hearing competing legal arguments over whether June payments extinguished a loan or represented assignments of interest, the Utah County Commission voted 3–0 to adopt findings and set aside a tax sale, adding language that an assignment is in process.
The Utah County Commission voted 3–0 to adopt findings of fact and a decision on a contested tax sale after attorneys argued whether payments made earlier this summer were payoffs that extinguished a loan or conditional assignments that left standing with prior parties.
During a lengthy hearing, Craig Carlisle, an attorney representing Steve Turley, told the commission his clients’ documents and emails show the transactions were conditional assignments, not payoffs: “There was no question from day one that this was going to be an assignment and not a payoff,” Carlisle said, and he outlined emails, checks dated June 6 and a draft assignment and indemnity agreement that he said show the…
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