State Ex Rel. Stephens Timber Co. v. Lang

Pursuant to Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, the Respondent advertised and accepted bids from Relator for certain tax certificates describing lands that had more than two years before been sold to the State for the non payment of State and County taxes. He refused after sale to cancel and deliver said certificates to Relator on the ground that the value of the lands described in them was far in excess of the face of the certificates including the taxes for -the succeeding year and because there was reasonable prospect of collecting the full amount of past due taxes on the lands described by other…