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Kozminskis stand to lose part of land

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14
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November
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1986
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Kozminskis stand to lose part of land

A couple convicted in 1984 of holding two men as slaves will lose a piece of property they owned because of their failure to pay off the mortgage.

Ike and Margarethe Kozminski of Sharon Township owned an apartment building at 809 S. Division St. in Ann Arbor, but have failed to pay the $69,930 principal and $6,834 in interest, according to Kathy Shafer, a paralegal at the firm of Dobson, Griffin, Austin and Berman, which represents Comerica Bank.

The property will be offered for sale at 10 a.m. on Dec. 4 in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Shafer said. The Kozminskis will have six months after that sale to pay off the mortgage, she said.

The Kozminskis and their son, John, appealed their slavery conviction to the U.S Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1984. The conviction was upheld in a 2-1 decision in August 1985.

But the Kozminskis appealed again and won a rehearing before an 11-judge panel. That hearing has not been held yet, according to a clerk in the appeals court in Cincinnati.