Case Name: HAYWARD v. AUDITOR GENERAL
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1907-03-26
Citations: 147 Mich. 591
Docket Number: Calendar No. 21,938
Parties: HAYWARD v. AUDITOR GENERAL.
Judges: Me Alva y, C. J., and Carpenter, Blair, Montgomery, Ostrander, and Moore, JJ., concurred with Hooker, J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 591–594

Head Matter:
HAYWARD v. AUDITOR GENERAL.
Taxation — Tax Deeds — Cancellation.
' There is no statutory impediment to cancellation by the auditor general of a tax deed or sale by the State after notice and the expiration of the period of six months referred to therein. Grant, J., dissenting.
Mandamus by Zachariah Hayward to compel James B. Bradley, auditor general, to cancel a tax deed.
Submitted November 7, 1906.
(Calendar No. 21,938.)
Writ granted March 26, 1907.
M. E. Louisell, for relator.
John E. Bird, Attorney General (Charles W. McGill, of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Hooker, J.
I am of the opinion that there is no statutory impediment to cancellation by the auditor general of a deed or sale by the State after notice and the expiration of the period of six months referred to therein (see Jakobowski v. Auditor General, 144 Mich. 46; Shaaf v. O'Connor, 146 Mich. 504), and that relator's laches, if the delay may be so called, under the circumstances, should not preclude the granting of his application to the auditor general.
The writ should issue.
Me Alva y, C. J., and Carpenter, Blair, Montgomery, Ostrander, and Moore, JJ., concurred with Hooker, J.