State v. Cummings

On April 5, 1932, the W 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 7, Township 19, Range 11, situated in Choctaw County, this State, was sold to the State of Mississippi for nonpayment of taxes thereon for the year 1931. The land was then owned by and assessed to L.D. Hemphill.

The State, on August 31, 1936, executed a patent to said land to appellee Cummings.

On June 19, 1946, the State Land Commissioner filed the bill in this cause to annul and cancel that patent on the grounds that Cummings failed to answer certain questions in the application for the patent and made false answers to other questions…