Gurd v. Auditor General

In February, 1897, the relator purchased from the State certain State tax lands, obtaining a tax deed therefor in the following June. He seeks now to have said deed canceled because it is void, and his money refunded. At the annual tax sale in 1894 in Ottawa county, the lands in controversy were bid in by the State for the taxes of 1892. The notice of the sale of these lands was published in a newspaper named De Grondwet, a newspaper published in the Holland, or Dutch, language. It is not claimed by the auditor general that this was a proper publication. He bases his refusal to refund the…