O'Connor v. Carpenter

Plaintiff brought ejectment against appellant and three other defendants for an undivided half of lot 10 of Seymour’s subdivision of the S. W. \ of section 10, city of Lansing, according to plat thereof, which premises the plaintiff claims in fee. The defendant admittedly held the original government title. The plaintiff’s tax title was admittedly invalid originally because of. his failure, on making the purchase, to pay the taxes then assessed against the land.- See Hughes v. Jordan, 118 Mich. 27. The plaintiff relied upon section 143 of the tax law (Act No. 229, Pub. Acts 1897), as amended…