Supreme Court of the United States May 7, 1956, 380 (Covey v. Town of Somers)

Mr. Chief Justice Warren

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The application of Article VII-A, Title 3, of the New York Tax Law to the mentally incompetent ward of appellant is challenged as being repugnant to the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The statute, in § 165

et seq.,

provides for the judicial foreclosure of tax liens on real property.