Tinnin v. Brown
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe- chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Samuel Whitman, Chancellor. This was a suit by S. A. Brown and others against A. L. Tinnin and J. B. Tinnin. In the year 1865, F. M. Brown was the owner of the lands in controversy, and in the year 1878 he conveyed the land to his wife Charlotte M. Brown; she died in March, 1880 and F. M. Brown married a second time.
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From tbe- chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Samuel Whitman, Chancellor. This was a suit by S. A. Brown and others against A. L. Tinnin and J. B. Tinnin. In the year 1865, F. M. Brown was the owner of the lands in controversy, and in the year 1878 he conveyed the land to his wife Charlotte M. Brown; she died in March, 1880 and F. M. Brown married a second time. On January 20, 1887, F. M. Brown and his second wife, E. T. Brown, conveyed the lands in controversy to H. C. Smith & Company, who in turn conveyed the lands to appellants A. L. Tinnin and J. B. Tinnin. F. M. Brown died in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, C.
So far as the agreement in the record that F. M. Brown was the common source of title is concerned, that means no more than that he was once such common source of title; but this does not preclude the defendants from showing, if they can, that they now hold the title through the tax deed made to M. Lowenstein & Brother. Undoubtedly, F. M. Brown was the common source of title; but the defendants may, notwithstanding that, and the agreement to that effect, show that, though he was such at one time, his title has come to them through a paramount valid tax title, if it was valid. We…
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