Southern Lumber Co. v. Arkansas Lumber Co.

Counsel for appellees seek to uphold the decision of the chancery court as to the lands colored red on the map under our statute making payment of taxes under color of title for seven years constructive adverse possession of wild and unimproved lands. The Legislature of 1899 passed the following act:

“Unimproved and uninclosed land shall be deemed and held to be in possession of the person who pays the taxes thereon if he have color of title thereto, but no person shall be entitled to invoke the benefit of this act unless he and those under whom he claims shall have paid such taxes for at…