Comstock v. Cover
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an application for a mandamus, made at the September Term, 1863, of the Knox county Circuit Court, by the appellant, to require John C. Cover, sheriff of Knox county, to show cause why he should not be compelled to make and execute certain tax deeds to appellant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an application for a mandamus, made at the September Term, 1863, of the Knox county Circuit Court, by the appellant, to require John C. Cover, sheriff of Knox county, to show cause why he should not be compelled to make and execute certain tax deeds to appellant. The petition sets out that appellee was, and had been for -months, the acting sheriff, legally elected and qualified, of Knox county. That on the 24th day of June, 1861, at a public sale of lands for taxes, in Knox county, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This record presents the question from what time is interest to be computed, upon the taxes a purchaser, at a sale of land for taxes, may have paid, when the land is sought to be redeemed.
Section forty-three of the revenue law of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, provides, that real property sold under it, may be redeemed at any time before the expiration of two years from the date of sale, by the payment to the clerk of the county court, of double the amount for which the same was sold, and all taxes accruing after such sale with ten per cent, interest thereon, from the day of sale, unless…
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