Auditor General v. McCall

The petition of the auditor general for a decree ordering the sale of lands for delinquent taxes, filed in February, 1909, included a prayer for a sale of the lands of the defendant for delinquent drain taxes amounting to $427.20. The defendant, the owner of these lands, objected to the tax on the ground that the notice of letting the contracts for the construction of the drain was insufficient, as 10 days had not elapsed before the last date of publication of notice of letting the contracts, and as proof of such publication was not before the drain commissioner on the date of letting. It…