see Bush, 275 S.W. at 1097. This rule includes parties who, while not legally obligated to pay taxes, have sufficient interest in the property that they might redeem it to protect themselves from loss or injury, or to establish a preferred lien. See Reynolds, 216 S.W.2d at 667. In these situations, equity requires the protection of the rights of other owners or lien holders. Id. The instant case differs in that UMLIC was under no legal obligation to pay the taxes on the property. Further, because neither UMLIC nor the SB A were joined as parties to the tax foreclosure suit, it was not necessary for UMLIC to pay the taxes to protect its security interest. See Murphee Prop. Holdings, Ltd. v. Sunbelt Sav. Ass’n of Tex., 817 S.W.2d 850, 852 (Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1991, no writ) (<HOLDING>). Although UMLIC’s security interest in the
holding that a lien holder who is not served and joined as a party to a tax suit cannot have his lien extinguished by the tax sale holding that the lien bond releases the property from the lien but the lien is then secured by the bond holding that a state tax lien was not judicial lien arising from judgment such that it could be avoided in bankruptcy by a chapter 13 debtor holding that a lien cannot be extinguished through a tax sale without the consent of the fdic holding that when the united states held a senior tax lien it was an indispensable party under the controlling federal tax law