Detroit Land Contract Co. v. Green
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; North, J., presiding. Mandamus by the Detroit Land Contract Company to compel William H. Green, treasurer of Wayne county, to accept a sum as payment of a mortgage tax, and to issue a certificate showing the amount secured. From an order granting the writ, defendant brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The single question presented in this proceeding is the amount of the mortgage tax which is payable to the county treasurer upon the offering for record of the land contract described. The stipulated facts are that George and Sarah McLean, on October 24, 1914, entered into a contract with Charles and Ida Barkume for the sale of a certain described lot of land in the city of Detroit for the sum of $1,900, the exact wording of the contract being in part as follows:
“The said parties of the first part, in consideration of the sum of Nineteen Hundred ($1,900) dollars to be to them duly paid,…
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