Fields v. Jarnagin

Ed. F. McFaddiN, Justice.

The facts in this case are complicated. In 1939, appellee, Mrs. Minnie Jarnigan (a nonresident of Arkansas) was the owner of lot 10, block 105, Fitzgerald Addition to the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, on which lot was located a house occupied by appellee’s tenant. This lot was in the Sebastian County Bridge District, and certain assessments of benefits (sometimes colloquially called "taxes") were unpaid on the lot. A foreclosure suit was instituted to collect these unpaid assessments; and on June 17, 1939, the Sebastian Chancery Court rendered a decree of foreclosure…