Dumphey v. Auditor General

Azuba Dumphey owned, and with her husband occupied, the premises in controversy in 1889, when the taxes, including a drain tax, were levied upon it. At the April term, 1892, of the circuit court for the county in which the lands are situate, the petition of the auditor general for a decree against delinquent tax lands was heard; Azuba Dumphey having been personally served with process, and, through a solicitor, having filed objections to the validity of the drain tax. Testimony was taken in open court, and the validity of the drain tax was sustained. In May, 1892, at an offering by the

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