Clark v. Crane
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made after judgment from Genesee Circuit. Ejectment for land in Fenton township. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff having made a prima facie showing of title in himself, under the original patentee, defendant introduced in evidence a deed of the lands from the Auditor General, for • delinquent taxes for the year 1849, to parties under whom defendant claimed.
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Case made after judgment from Genesee Circuit. Ejectment for land in Fenton township. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff having made a prima facie showing of title in himself, under the original patentee, defendant introduced in evidence a deed of the lands from the Auditor General, for • delinquent taxes for the year 1849, to parties under whom defendant claimed. To show the invalidity of this tax-deed, plaintiff introduced, among other things, the assessors’ certificate to the assessment-roll for the year for which the taxes were levied; which is in the following form: , “We do…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
' The twenty-first section of chapter 20 — “Of the Assessment and Collection of Taxes” (R. S. 1846, p. 105) — is in these words: “Sec. 21. When the assessors shall have reviewed and completed the assessment-roll, they shall attach a certificate thereto, signed by them, in the following form: We do hereby certify, that we have set down in the above assessment - roll, all the real estate in the township of-, liable to
be taxed, according to our best information; and that we have estimated the same at what we believe to be the true cash value thereof; that the said assessment-roll…
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