Le Boeuf v. Papp

Plaintiff files this bill to redeem from a tax sale lot 480, General Motors Park, of the city of Flint. The lot was purchased by Eva E. Arthur for the delinquent taxes for 1920. She sold it for $150 to defendant Kolomon Papp. The regularity of the tax levy and sale is not questioned. Plaintiff, as grounds for relief, insists that the steps taken to cut off his right to redeem are not efficient to that end. See 1 Comp. Laws 1915, § 4138. Defendant Papp had let the contract to build a house on the lot and had paid $300 thereon when he first learned that plaintiff claimed the lot. He waited a…