State ex rel. West v. Wright

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel the defendant, Wright, as auditor of Cuyahoga county, to execute and deliver to the relator a deed of land which was purchased by the latter at tax sale, and for which he holds a tax sale certificate. The former owner was a Baptist society which is said to have ceased long ago to exist. A general county organization of the same religious faith is alleged to have interested itself in procuring the redemption of the property from said tax sale, in the name or on behalf of the survivors or successors of the trustees who *481last held that office in the…