Blunt v. Auditor General

In this case plaintiffs seek to set aside the sale of certain land at scavenger sale, and to compel a conveyance to them. The taxes for 1935 and prior years became delinquent on certain land in Oakland county which will be herein designated as the “north 40.” The tax on this parcel was sold and bid in by the State at the 1942 tax sale and thereafter the title of the State became absolute. In due course of time said north 40 was conveyed by the auditor general to the State land office board, put into the “scavenger sale” by that board in 1944, at which time the plaintiff, Waldo E. Blunt, as…