State Ex Rel. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. v. Erickson

Boring, Justice.

Respondents, who owned part of a parcel of real estate in the platted portion of Minneapolis which had been sold as a whole to the state for taxes, petitioned the district court for an alternative writ of mandamus directing appellant, the auditor of Hennepin county, to show cause why he should not apportion the tax judgment under which the parcel was sold so that respondents could redeem their part of the parcel by paying their proportionate share of the tax judgment under Mason St. 1927, §§ 2158 and 2160. The writ was issued and the case tried. The court filed findings of…