Conley v. Auditor General

This is an application for a mandamus to require respondent to set aside a sale of lands and to issue a deed to relators. The relators are in actual possession of the land which is the subject of the controversy. At the sale in December, 1896, this land was bid off to the State for the taxes of 1894. On the 12th day of February, 1897, Alexander McMillan and Charles Cannell filed an application with the auditor general for the pur*84chase of this land, and' paid the auditor general at that time the sum of $10.79, the amount of the State bid, together with interest thereon, and received from the…