Case v. Dean
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to St. Joseph Circuit. This was an action of ejectment by the owner of the fee, brought against the plaintiff in error, who- claimed the premises by virtue of two deeds from the Auditor General, made on sales for the years 1856 and 1857. The tax deeds had been recorded in the counties where the land was situated, more than two years'before the commencement of suit. The plaintiff below obtained judgment in the Circuit Court.
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Error to St. Joseph Circuit. This was an action of ejectment by the owner of the fee, brought against the plaintiff in error, who- claimed the premises by virtue of two deeds from the Auditor General, made on sales for the years 1856 and 1857. The tax deeds had been recorded in the counties where the land was situated, more than two years'before the commencement of suit. The plaintiff below obtained judgment in the Circuit Court. The case comes up on numerous exceptions taken to the rulings of the Court below, and which are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
This was an action of ejectment brought by defendants in error, deriving title by inheritance from the original patentee, against the plaintiff in error, who claimed part of the premises under two deeds from the Auditor General on sales made to him at the annual tax sales for 1857 and 1858 for the delinquent taxes of 1856 and 1857, and a part by a like deed on sale made to one Maria Platt (under whom he claimed) at the annual tax sales of 1858 for the delinquent taxes of 1857; all these tax deeds having been duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for the county of…
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