Smith v. Switzer

Decision in the ca,se rests in part on Smith v. Smith, ante, 143 (124 A. L. R. 215), and it is unnecessary to repeat the facts therein stated. Except for defendant C. Herbert Switzer, a son of defendant Lottie E. Smith by a former marriage, the parties are the same.

On June 2,1930, the city of Detroit sold the premises involved in Smith v. Smith for a period of 99 years for the nonpayment of the general city taxes thereon for the year 1929 to Manuel Faust, who paid the sum of $4,710.37 for the city tax certificate. At the time of this sale there were also unpaid delinquent city taxes for the…