MacKinnon v. Auditor General
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Donald C. MacKinnon to compel Perry F. Powers, auditor general, to cancel certain tax sales, and to refund the amount paid thereon.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The following statement of facts, taken from the brief of the attorney general, does not materially differ from that contained in the. brief of counsel for relator :
At the county treasurer’s sale in October, 1886, relator purchased lot 1 of block 5 and lot 7 of block 4 of the recorded plat of the village of Iron River for the.taxes of 1883 and 1884. He purchased the same lands at the auditor general’s office in August, 1888, for the taxes of 1885, and at the county treasurer’s sale in October, 1888, for the taxes of 1886, and in May, 1890, for the taxes of 1887.
It appears that in 1878 relator…
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