Laing v. McKee

Cooley J.:

The bill of "complaint in this- case sets forth that complainant is the owner of a forty acre lot in Clinton county, which, at the annual tax sales, made in October, 1858, was sold to defendant for taxes delinquent for the-year IBS?, amounting to one dollar, forty-one cents; that complainant haying a right to redeem from this sale sent the money for that purpose by one Treat to the office of the Auditor General, but tliat Treat, ascertaining that tho sale was made to defendant, who was a neighbor of complainant, returned tlie money without redeeming, saying that he thought…