Robertson v. Commissioner of State Land Office

The relator is assignee of Addison P. Cook in the ownership of certain certificates of purchase of State swamp lands in the county of Lenawee, which were issued in the year 1853, and- by the terms of which said Cook was -to pay one-fourth the purchase price down, and the balance, with interest, at any time thereafter, at the option of the purchaser. The one-fourth was paid when the certificates were issued, and the remainder June 10, 1879. The certificates were assigned to the relator in 1878, and the final payments were made by him. At that time he demanded of the respondent a certificate…