State ex rel. World Publishing Co. v. Fink

Ames, O.

This action was submitted by brief and oral argument as presenting a single question, to wit, the construction of section 7, chapter 75, laws 1903, entitled “An act to enforce the payment and collection of delinquent taxes and special assessments on real property” (Comp. St. ch. 77, art. IX; Ann. St. 10614-10691); and that construction, so far as was supposed to affect the present controversy, depends upon the definition of the word “fail.” The act provides that the county treasurer shall between the first day of June and the first day of July in each year prepare a petition setting…