Maxwell v. Paine

Tliis suit is an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiffs against the defendants to recover lot 10 in block 68 in the plat of Lower Saginaw, in Bay City. The plaintiffs claim under a tax deed made under a sale of the premises by the Auditor General for the unpaid taxes of 1877 and 1878. At the time the taxes were assessed and this suit was commenced, the defendant Paine lived in Saginaw and claimed to own the lot in question. She was leasing the land to other persons and had paid taxes on the property as liers. The other defendants were in the actual occupation of the property when the…