Detroit Life Insurance Co. v. Auditor Gen.

The supervisor of the township of Portage, in the county of Houghton, assessed certain platted lots and parts of lots, some of which were not contiguous, as one parcel, to the estate of Richard Edwards as owner, on the assessment roll for the year 1916. The taxes levied thereon not having been paid, the lands were returned delinquent, included in the petition of the auditor general and, after decree, advertised and sold, and bid in to the State, pursuant to the provisions of section 4063 et seq., of the general tax law as it appears in the Compiled Laws of 1915. Similar proceedings' were had…