State ex rel. Merrell v. Adam Snyder, Co. Treas.

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This is an application for a peremptory writ, of mandamus, to require the respondent to pay over to relator *346$573.70 and interest paid to respondent as treasurer of Douglas county on the 5th day of January, 1891, for the redemption of certain real estate from a tax sale. Relator purchased lots 5 and 6, block 3, Capitol Hill addition to Omaha, at private tax sale January 5, 1889, for $86.34, delinquent taxes of 1887, and received a certificate of tax sale thereof; on which he afterwards at different times paid for delinquent taxes on said lots the further sum of $433.96. The…