Auditor General v. Stoddard

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the circuit court, in chancery, for Bay county, on the auditor general’s petition for the sale of lands delinquent for taxes. The tax against which contestant filed his objections was a special assessment levied for the construction of an asphalt pavement on Center avenue, in Bay City. The cost of said pavement, pursuant to the provisions of the city charter, was raised by a bond issue, and the payment of the bonds is provided for by assessing 70 per cent, of the cost of the pavement to the abutting property specially benefited, and 30 per cent, to…