Johnston v. Knapp

Campbell, J.:

In 1865 one Benjamin F. Bush became the purchaser of one hundred and twenty acres of land in Kent county, paying to the state land office one-fourth of the purchase money and receiving the ifSual certificate. He died in 1866. In October, 1869, the land was offered for sale as land which had become forfeited, and complainant, on the 28th of October, 1869, bid it off, and paid to the state treasurer one hundred and twenty dollars, by means whereof he became, as he avers, entitled in one year thereafter to a cértificate of purchase if the land was not redeemed.

On the 13th of…