People ex rel. Turner v. Kelsey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 13th day of January, 1904, directed to Otto Kelsey, as Comptroller of the State of New York, commanding him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular his proceedings had in relation to the granting of an application for the redemption of certain lands sold for unpaid taxes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The only question involved on this appeal is whether the various statutes creating and defining the duties and rights of the Forest Commission have placed it in such actual occupancy of wild and vacant lands owned by the State within the forest preserve that notice must be given it in order to limit the time to redeem lands sold for unpaid taxes.
At the State tax sale of December, 1900, the relator purchased a tract of wild and unoccupied land within the boundaries of the forest preserve, paid the purchase price and received a certificate of sale therefor. At the time of such sale…
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