Oberlin Loan, Trust & Banking Co. v. Flinn

This is a proceeding to compel the County Treasurer to receive and accept an interest payment alleged to be due upon a certificate of purchase of school land, to issue a receipt therefor, and to compel the County Clerk to restore the records in his office, concerning the purchase and assignment of the land, as they were before a certain forfeiture proceeding was had.

In 1884, J. D. Harris purchased eighty acres of school land for $240, at which time he paid one-tenth of the purchase price. A certificate of purchase was-issued which showed that the balance was to be paid, twenty years…