This section is from the book "The Law Of Land Contracts", by Asher L. Cornelius. Also available from Amazon: Michigan Law Of Land Contracts.
(Caption. Usual recital of time and place of court.) This cause having come on to be heard upon the bill of complaint taken as confessed in said cause, and the court having heard the evidence for the plaintiff, and having duly considered the same, and being fully advised of the premises finds the facts to be as follows:
1. That the defendant A. B. is an owner and holder of a certain tax deed upon which he has paid the taxes in the sum of....................dollars, plus the sum of....................dollars costs and expenses in connection with procuring said tax title and that there is due accrued interest thereon for................years, making the total of....................dollars due the said A. B. upon said tax title.
2. That it is just and equitable that the plaintiff be permitted to redeem said outstanding tax title from the said A. B.
upon the payment of said sum of....................dollars to the clerk of this court, and it further appears that plaintiff has deposited with the clerk of this court for the purpose of redeeming from said tax sale said sum of....................dollars, the court further finds:
3. That C. D., the above mentioned defendant, at the time he made a conveyance of said property as hereinbefore described was an unmarried man and that no surviving spouse or widow of the said C. D. has any right, title, interest in and to said real estate.
4. The court further finds that on the....................day of
...................., when the above named defendants....................and
....................executed a deed to said premises, that by such deed said defendants intended to convey to the plaintiff the identical property described in plaintiff's bill of complaint, to-wit: (here insert the description of property), but that said property was erroneously described in the following manner: (here insert the erroneous description); that upon the execution and delivery of said deed the said plaintiff took possession of the property, has held the same exclusively, openly, notoriously, and adversely as against all of said defendants for a period of fifteen years and more, and that said plaintiff is now the owner in fee simple of said property and has a perfect title against all defendants; that the claims of said defendants constitute clouds upon plaintiff's title and that plaintiff's title ought to be quieted against all of said defendants.
It Is Therefore Considered, Adjudged and Decreed and the court doth hereby order, adjudge and decree that said tax deed issued by the Auditor General of the State of Michigan to
A. B. dated the....................day of...................., recorded in liber
...................., page................of....................in the office of the register of deeds of....................county is hereby cancelled, annulled and set aside and the said defendant A. B. is hereby decreed to have no right, title, and interest in and to the above described real estate by virtue of said deed, and the title of said plaintiff....................is hereby decreed to be perfect as against the said defendant.
It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that no surviving spouse or widow of the said A. B. had any right, title, or interest in and to the said real estate; that the title of plaintiff is perfect as against the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, and assigns of the said A. B.
It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that said defendants (here name the defendants who had the legal title to the real estate at the time the deed was made containing the erroneous description of the real estate to the plaintiff); that the above named defendants had no right, title, or interest in and to said real estate and that the plaintiff has a title in fee simple, perfect as against said defendants; and that the plaintiff have leave to cause this decree or a certified copy thereof to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of said county of.....................
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Circuit Judge.
 
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