Brown v. Houghton Mineral Land & Mining Co.

The bill in this cause was filed to quiet complainant’s title to certain wild and unimproved lands. The complainant claims title under a tax deed made upon a sale of the lands for the delinquent taxes of 1894. The only question in the case is whether the sale was invalid because the court did not remain in session the number of days required by the statute in order to give the delinquent taxpayers opportunity to present objections to the auditor general’s petition.

Section 66 of the tax law of 1893 (Act No. 206, IJub. Acts 1893) provides:

“If, within the first five days after the day fixed in…