restrictions.] No action shall be sustained to recover stock sold for delinquent assessments, upon the ground of irregularity in the assessment, irregularity or defect in the notice of sale, or in the sale, unless the party seeking to maintain such action first pays or tenders to the corporation, or the party holding the stock sold as the case may be, the sum for which the same was sold, together with all subsequent assessments which may have been paid thereon, and interest on such sums from the time they were paid; and no such action shall be sustained unless the same shall be commenced by the filing of a complaint and the issuing of a summons thereon within six months after such sale shall have been made.