Verdict Of $207.77 In Tax Title Case

HOTLY CONTESTED CASE ENDED AT NOON

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It Will be Carried to the Supreme Court by Mr. Morton

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The jury in the case of George B. Sudworth vs. Hudson T. Morton and the Wolverine Land Co. Wednesday afternoon rendered a verdict of $207.77 against Hudson T. Morton. The case will be appealed to the supreme court and the trial there will be very interesting as some rather new and delicate points of law are involved.

The part of the case which was against the Wolverine Land Co., for conspiracy, was dropped because of want of evidence.

The case grew out of the plaintiff having paid the Wolverine Land Co., who had a tax title deed, $200 for a quit-claim deed on property on which H. T. Morton had obtained a tax title. The certificates of tax were transferred to the owner of the property some 25 years ago by Mr. Morton and when the tax title deed was obtained certificate was made that these certificates were lost. Mr. Morton testified that he had signed these certificates and placed them in the hands of Tracy W. Kent, who had lost them and that he never received any money on them, but the jury took the certificates at what they purported to be.