People Ex Rel. Chase v. . Wemple
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from, orders of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon orders made September 27, 1894, which affirmed in each of the above cases a determination of the comptroller and quashed a writ of certiorari. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The comptroller had power to set aside the redemption.
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Appeal from, orders of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon orders made September 27, 1894, which affirmed in each of the above cases a determination of the comptroller and quashed a writ of certiorari. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The comptroller had power to set aside the redemption. (Laws of 1873, chap. 120; Laws of 1893, chap. 711, § 21; People ex rel. v. Chapin, 105 N. Y. 309; Osterhoudt v. Rigney, 98 id. 222; People ex rel. v. Bd. Suprs., 73 id. 173.) The redemption was improperly allowed. (People ex rel. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtFutoh, J.
Two writs of certiorari were issued upon the petition of the relator, one to review the action of the Comptroller in accepting a redemption of lot 181 in the Old Military Tract, Franklin county, and the other to review his refusal to vacate that redemption as being beyond his official power.
The redemption itself, upon the papers before Comptroller Campbell, was lawful and proper. They showed that Charlotte G-. Hall was the owner of lot 181; that it had been sold for the taxes of 1871, 1877 and 1881, and bid in by the state and then conveyed to the relator; that the lot was occupied when the…
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