Baker v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Section 1 of chapter 892, Laws of 1901, provides “that in all cases in which real estate• has been or shall be sold and bid in by the county at any delinquent-tax sale, and shall remain or shall have remained unredeemed and the certificate of sale untransferred for the period of three and one-fourth years after such sale, it shall be the duty of the *528county attorney of such county, when so ordered by the board of county commissioners, to institute an action in the district court, in the name of the board of county commissioners, against the…