Tucker v. Van Winkle

The petitioner holds the auditor general’s deed to the premises in question. He has filed his petition for a writ of assistance, that he may be put in possession of said lands. Defendants Van Winkle and Charles Montague are the grantees named in the last recorded deed in the regular chain of title to said lands, and' claim to be owners. William Bonifas claims to have an interest in the timber growing upon said land. The petition is opposed, upon the grounds that the notices served did not conform to the requirements of section 140 of the tax law *211(1 Comp. Laws, § 3959), and that proper proof…