A British Columbia resident has been awarded about $350,000 in compensation from the township of Spallumcheen.
Anthony Brent Morgan, a 57-year-old carpenter, lost his home when the local government sold it in September 2017 for “pennies on the dollar” without telling him.
According to the summary given in court documents, Morgan had become the registered owner of the property in January 2011 after seeing the property in October 2010, at which point “he discovered that the Property, then a vacant lot comprising 9.37 acres, was being offered for sale at a price he could afford and included the potential for a vendor take-back mortgage at a reasonable rate.”
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