Lear v. Hendrix

Appellant Lear filed his bill in the chancery court of Yazoo County against appellee Mrs. Hendrix to cancel the latter’s tax title to a lot in Yazoo City and to establish and have confirmed his claim of title thereto. The cause was heard on bill, answer, and proofs resulting in the decree prayed for in the bill. From that decree appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The charter of Yazoo City is not the Code chapter on municipalities (Chapter 50, Code of 1930), but a special charter of its own. However, certain provisions of the Code chapter are required to be read into the municipal charter and…