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Tax Title Set Aside

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
January
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

TAX TITLE SET ASIDE

Deed Owned by Wolverine Land Company

SET ASIDE BY COURT

Taxes Were Excessive and Supervisor's Certificate to Roll Was Lacking - Deed Was Also Being Wrongfully Obtained

A tax title deed issued by the auditor general to Hudson T. Morton, on property owned by John Ellis and by Morton sold to the Wolverine Land Co., was set aside by Judge Kinne Friday. The land was sold for taxes about 1874 and the tax receipts were afterwards purchased by the holder of the mortgage. Not finding the tax receipts, Mr. Morton secured the tax deed. The deed was set aside on the ground that the tax assessment rolls lacked the required supervisor's certificate, that the tax assessment that year was in excess of the amount allowed to be raised by the city charter and hence the tax was void, but that even if good, the tax deed had been obtained by constructive fraud.