Barker v. Township of Vernon

Complainants, as severally and not jointly aggrieved, filed their bill in the circuit court for the county of Shiawassee, to set aside clouds on their titles alleged to have been created by the return of unpaid assessments on their lands for the expense of clearing out a township drain. The court below dismissed the bill, which had been taken as confessed, chiefly for the reason that the money had not been paid into court, and complainants appeal.

When the bill was filed, all the action of the drain commissioner had come to an end, and the taxes had been returned to the county treasurer, and…