Bratton v. Union Sawmill Company

Habt, J.,

(after stating the facts). The record shows that the land in question was sold in 1910 for the nonpayment of the taxes of 1909, and that, two years thereafter, a tax deed was executed to J. S. Alphin, who had become the owner of the certificate of purchase issued to the purchaser at the tax sale. The clerk’s tax deed was executed to him on the 14th day of June, 1912. Y. A. Bratton had moved away from the land with his family, at the beginning of the year 1910, and lived away from there until his death in February, 1914. Thereafter Bratton did not pay the taxes on the land and did not…