58 Kan. 83 | Kan. | 1897
This is a proceeding to compel the County Treasurer to receive and accept an interest payment alleged to be due upon a certificate of purchase of school land, to issue a receipt therefor, and to compel the County Clerk to restore the records in his office, concerning the purchase and assignment of the land, as they were before a certain forfeiture proceeding was had.
In 1884, J. D. Harris purchased eighty acres of school land for $240, at which time he paid one-tenth of the purchase price. A certificate of purchase was-issued which showed that the balance was to be paid, twenty years thereafter, interest thereon to be paid, annually at the rate of six per cent, per annum. Five annual payments of interest were made by him,, and, on January 20, 1888, he sold and assigned his-, interest in the land to the Oberlin Loan, Trust and
The only question presented for consideration is the sufficiency of the notice upon which the forfeiture proceedings were based. The description of the land in the notice was somewhat vague and indefinite ; but, assuming that it was sufficient in that regard if
The plaintiff is entitled to be restored to the rights of a purchaser ; and, therefore, the writ of mandamus will be awarded in accordance with the prayer of the petition.