Municipal Investors Ass'n v. City of Birmingham

I concur in the result reached by Mr. Justice Chandler. The paramount question involved in this case may be stated as follows: Do the statutes here involved prevent reassessment on special assessment districts when the land in such districts has been bid in by the State at the tax sale and then resold under the so-called scavenger act? *

Act No. 206, § 67, Pub. Acts 1893, as last amended by Act No. 282, Pub. Acts 1939 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1940, § 3459, Stat. Ann. 1940 Cum. Supp. §7.112), dealing with the decree to be entered upon the sale of property for tax delinquencies, provides:

“ ‘It is…