O'Connor v. Gottschalk
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Macomb; Erskine, J. Ejectment by Ada H. O’Connor, special administratrix of the estate of William O’Connor, deceased, against Otto Gottschalk and another. There was judgment for defendants on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiff brings error. This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of 40 acres of land located in Macomb county.
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Error to Macomb; Erskine, J. Ejectment by Ada H. O’Connor, special administratrix of the estate of William O’Connor, deceased, against Otto Gottschalk and another. There was judgment for defendants on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiff brings error. This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of 40 acres of land located in Macomb county. Plaintiff’s title is based upon a tax deed issued by the auditor general to William O’Connor May 25, 1903, for taxes assessed for the year 1899. Mr. O’Connor brought the suit in his lifetime. Upon his death plaintiff was substituted as…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). No attack is *452made upon the validity of the tax deed to O’Connor. The sole question is: Did Frank and Edwin Jerome comply with the statute so as to entitle them to a reconveyance from O’Connor ? The judgment of the court must be sustained.
The statute authorizes the register in chancery, to whom the returns of the sheriff must be made, and who is the custodian of the papers showing the amounts required to be paid, to receive the money from the original owner for the tax title owner. It also requires the register to at once notify the original owner of the deposit of…
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