Auditor General v. Patterson
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Saginaw; Snow, J. Petition by Roscoe D. Dix, auditor general, for the sale of lands delinquent for taxes: On objections filed by Egbert H. Patterson. From a decree for petitioner, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
The lands in question were returned delinquent for the taxes of 1894, 1895, and 1896, and were included in the petition of the auditor general for the year 1896 for the taxes levied in the year 1894, and at the sale in December, 1896, were bid in by the State. Subsequently the decree of sale was vacated, the bid canceled, and the taxes of 1894 decreed to be void. On December 6,1897, Launt Thompson applied to the auditor general to purchase the State bid on this description of land, and on February 18,1898, paid the taxes on the land for the years 1894, 1895, and 1896. A deed was issued to him…
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