Silsbee v. Stockle

This case was once before in this court, and the opinion then given resulted in a new trial. Stockle v Silsbee 41 Mich. 615. It is ejectment to recover lands the original title to which is held by the plaintiff. The lands were returned for the non-payment of taxes of 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872, and were bid in for the State in each of those years. Afterwards the State sold them, and defendants hold the State conveyance. The plaintiff claims that the tax levy *563was void in each of the four years; and the controversy turns wholly upon this allegation. The land consists of one hundred and twenty…